Does alcohol septal ablation provide similar long-term survival compared to surgical myectomy and the general population in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Alcohol septal ablation in carefully selected patients with obstructive HCM provides long-term survival comparable to surgical myectomy and the general population.
In this nonrandomized study of carefully selected patients undergoing septal ablation by experienced operators in a tertiary referral HCM center, long-term survival was favorable and similar to that of an age- and sex-matched general population, and to patients undergoing surgical myectomy, as well, without an increased risk of sudden cardiac death.
Sorajja et al. (Thu,) studied this question.