Alcohol septal ablation in patients with severe septal hypertrophy
ObjectiveThe current guidelines suggest alcohol septal ablation (ASA) is less effective in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) patients with severe left ventricular hypertrophy, despite acknowledging that systematic data are lacking. Therefore, we analysed patients in the Euro-ASA registr...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Heart (British Cardiac Society) 2020-03, Vol.106 (6), p.462-466 |
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Zusammenfassung: | ObjectiveThe current guidelines suggest alcohol septal ablation (ASA) is less effective in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) patients with severe left ventricular hypertrophy, despite acknowledging that systematic data are lacking. Therefore, we analysed patients in the Euro-ASA registry to test this statement.MethodsWe compared the short-term and long-term outcomes of patients with basal interventricular septum (IVS) thickness |
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ISSN: | 1355-6037 1468-201X |
DOI: | 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-315422 |