What are the long-term outcomes of alcohol septal ablation in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Due to potentially unwanted long-term effects, myectomy is recommended as the preferred intervention over alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
This study shows that ASA has potentially unwanted long-term effects. This poses special precaution, given the fact that ASA is practiced worldwide at increasing rate. We recommend myectomy as the preferred intervention in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Cate et al. (2010) studied this question.