Low Operative Mortality Achieved With Surgical Septal Myectomy

Contemporary mortality data for myectomy are well known to experts in dedicated HCM centers but may not have penetrated sufficiently into the practicing general cardiology community. [...]this is an opportune time to tabulate the most recent operative mortality data from 5 major high-volume HCM myectomy centers in North America (Table 1). [...]perceptions of HCM and myectomy have been contaminated by older obsolete published reports skewed to a grim portrayal of outcome, including high operative mortality (1,2). [...]a contemporary understanding of the safety (and efficacy) (1,2) attributable to myectomy is crucial to assessing the role of surgery in the management armamentarium for this disease.