Until the early 1990s, surgical myectomy ... ventricular septal anatomy and septal perforator distribution and size are judged appropriate. LVH = left ventricular hypertrophy; MAZE = surgical ...

More information: Nirav Patel et al, Procedural Volume and Outcomes After Septal Reduction Therapies in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy, Journal of the American Heart Association (2024 ...

Equally disturbing, the median number of septal myectomy and alcohol septal ablation cases was just 1% and 0.7% per year, the investigators, led by Dr Luke K Kim (Weill Cornell Medical Center ...

This lack of experience translated into worse outcomes for patients. For instance, those who underwent septal myectomy at low-volume centers or by low-volume operators faced nearly double the risk of ...

Findings from the "Valor-HCM Study: Myosin Inhibition as an Alternative to Surgical Myectomy or Alcohol Septal Ablation in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy" were presented today during a ...

Findings from the “Valor-HCM Study: Myosin Inhibition as an Alternative to Surgical Myectomy or Alcohol Septal Ablation in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy” were presented today during ...