After the Institutional Review Board approved the protocol, and written informed consent was obtained, patients were randomized to receive a septal or apical ventricular lead. At the end of the first ...

Over the long term, patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who require a permanent pacemaker after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) fare just as well as those who don’t, a ...

The occurrence of high-grade conduction disturbances after alcohol septal ablation (ASA) did not translate into worse long-term survival for people with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), ...

Highly symptomatic patients who undergo alcohol septal ablation (ASA) for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) have long-term survival rates comparable to those of the general population, ...

Background A 42-year-old woman with a 20-year history of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was referred for alcohol septal ablation following a worsening of symptoms, which had persisted despite ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mavacamten (Bristol Myers Squibb) also improved symptoms, biomarker levels and quality of life metrics compared ...

Septal myectomy removes part of a thickened septum to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. It can improve severe symptoms that do not respond to ...

This study has shown in patients with ventricular pacemaker dependency using a randomized double-blind single-center prospective design, that there is significant improvement in LVEF and 6-minute walk ...