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Does radiofrequency septal ablation improve left ventricular outflow tract gradients and symptoms in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy?
Does radiofrequency septal ablation improve left ventricular outflow tract gradients and symptoms in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy?
Radiofrequency septal ablation represents a promising, minimally invasive alternative to surgical myectomy and alcohol septal ablation for reducing LVOT gradients and improving symptoms in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is one of the major causes of cardiac death that affects 1 in 500 people worldwide. Surgical myectomy and alcohol septal ablation have been the gold standard well established procedures for the treatment of this condition. Starting 2004 a new procedure, radiofrequency septal ablation, has been applied and showed significant improvement in the NYHA classification as well as the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) gradients of these patients. With overall less complications as compared to the surgical myectomy and the alcohol septal ablation. This procedure could take the upper hand in the treatment during the next few decades.
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Ibrahim Kareem M. M. (2020) studied this question.
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