Septal myectomy and alcohol septal ablation: how safe and effective?

By Gordon Fox | December 7, 2023

Background A new meta-analysis (Yokohama et al. 2023) on the comparative success and safety of the two methods of septal reduction therapy – alcohol septal ablation (ASA; https://4hcm.org/alcohol-septal-ablation/) and septal myectomy (SM; https://4hcm.org/myectomy/) – was just published in European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery. Methods Yujiro Yokoyama and colleagues conducted a meta-analysis of studies that compared…

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