Until the early 1990s, surgical myectomy represented the standard treatment for patients with HOCM and drug-refractory symptoms. Then in 1995 alcohol septal ablation was introduced as a less ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with mid-cavitary obstruction (MCO ... Current data support transapical myectomy as an effective surgical therapy to relieve MCO and intracavitary gradients, with ...

Septal myectomy is an open-heart surgery to remove part of a thickened heart muscle, which is a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). HCM is a type of heart disease associated with an ...

In all patients, the apical aneurysm was resected completely, and transventricular myectomy was performed to enlarge ... Link MS, Maron MS. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with left ventricular apical ...

Introduction Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an inherited cardiac condition ... Both alcohol septal ablation and surgical myectomy are skilled, specialist procedures that reduce septal ...

Read about one patient’s experience with septal myectomy surgery. In this video, Dr. Usman Tahir, Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Genetics at BIDMC, discusses the current genetic paradigm ...

A 34-year-old man was referred for progressive angina and exertional dyspnoea refractory to medical therapy, with a presumptive diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM ... the subaortic membrane ...

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is the most common genetically inherited ... Results Group A (n = 286) underwent septal myectomy; Group B (n = 32) underwent septal myectomy and MV repair; Group C (n = 26) ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is an inherited condition ... For instance, those who underwent septal myectomy at low-volume centers or by low-volume operators faced nearly double the risk of 30 ...