✍️Alcohol Septal Ablation
Surgical Procedure for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
Alcohol septal ablation is a procedure used to treat obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
It is a minimally invasive procedure performed when severe symptoms cannot be controlled with drugs.In obstructive HCM, the wall (septum) between the heart’s ventricles thickens until it interferes with blood flow to the body.
Alcohol septal ablation creates a tiny, managed heart attack in the abnormally thickened heart tissue. The damaged tissue dies and is replaced by thinner scar tissue, restoring blood flow out of the heart.
Alcohol septal ablations are conducted in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory of the Heart Institute.
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