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Review outlines 10 practical tips for safe, effective alcohol septal ablation in HOCM.
Why the study?
Although alcohol septal ablation has been used for 25 years to treat HOCM, no formal guidelines exist and many cardiologists have limited procedural experience.
This paper provides ten practical tips and tricks for performing safe and effective alcohol septal ablation in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
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May inform alcohol septal ablation technique in HOCM; leaves open prospective validation of outcomes.
Alcohol septal ablation (ASA) is an effective interventional therapeutic strategy to reduce or eliminate left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). Although ASA was introduced 25 years ago, there are still no available guidelines to follow. Therefore, most interventional cardiologists rely on their own experience, which is often limited by a relatively low number of performed procedures. This paper presents ten tips and tricks to safe and effective ASA for HOCM.
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Josef Veselka (2020) conducted a review in Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). Alcohol septal ablation (ASA) was evaluated. This paper presents ten practical tips and tricks for performing safe and effective alcohol septal ablation in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
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