Abstract

Septal reduction therapies in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: comparison of surgical septal myectomy and alcohol septal ablation

Author(s): JB Geske, KW Klarich, SR Ommen, HV Schaff & RA Nishimura

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heritable cardiomyopathy, defined by cardiac hypertrophy in the absence of an identifiable hemodynamic etiology.