Surgical septal myectomy versus alcohol septal ablation: assessing the status of the controversy in 2014

Circulation. 2014 Oct 28;130(18):1617-24. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.011580.
No abstract available

Keywords: ablation techniques; cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic; death, sudden; heart failure; surgery.

MeSH terms

  • Alcohols / therapeutic use*
  • Algorithms
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods*
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / mortality
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / mortality
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / surgery*
  • Catheter Ablation / methods*
  • Catheter Ablation / mortality
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / epidemiology
  • Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control
  • Heart Septum / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Morbidity
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / mortality
  • Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / surgery*

Substances

  • Alcohols