Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy for primary prevention of sudden death after alcohol septal ablation of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of alcohol septal ablation (ASA) on ventricular arrhythmias among patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), as measured by appropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) discharges. Alcohol septal ablation is an effect...

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Published in:	Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 52; no. 21; p. 1718
Main Authors:	Cuoco, Frank A, Spencer, 3rd, William H, Fernandes, Valerian L, Nielsen, Christopher D, Nagueh, Sherif, Sturdivant, J Lacy, Leman, Robert B, Wharton, J Marcus, Gold, Michael R
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 18.11.2008
Subjects:	Adult Aged Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic - complications Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic - mortality Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic - therapy Catheter Ablation Combined Modality Therapy Death, Sudden, Cardiac - prevention & control Defibrillators, Implantable Ethanol - therapeutic use Female Follow-Up Studies Heart Septum - drug effects Humans Injections, Intralesional Kaplan-Meier Estimate Male Middle Aged Primary Prevention - methods Probability Prospective Studies Risk Assessment Survival Rate Treatment Outcome
ISSN:	1558-3597, 1558-3597
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