Does surgical septal myectomy reduce the incidence of appropriate ICD discharge and risk for SCD in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Surgical septal myectomy in obstructive HCM is associated with a marked reduction in appropriate ICD discharges and sudden cardiac death risk.
These data suggest that surgical myectomy, primarily performed to relieve outflow tract obstruction and severe symptoms in HCM, is associated with a marked reduction in the incidence of appropriate ICD discharge and risk for SCD.
McLeod et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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