Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Tufts Medical Center · Cleveland Clinic · +7 more institutions
Abstract
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a relatively common, globally distributed, and often inherited primary cardiac disease, has now transformed into a contemporary highly treatable condition with effective options that alter natural history along specific personalized adverse pathways at all ages. HCM patients with disease-related complications benefit from: matured risk stratification in which major markers reliably select patients for prophylactic defibrillators and prevention of arrhythmic sudden death; low risk to high benefit surgical myectomy (with percutaneous alcohol ablation a selective alternative) that reverses progressive heart failure caused by outflow obstruction; anticoagulation prophylaxis that…
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10Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- Alcohol septal ablation
- Atrial fibrillation
- Natural history
- Intensive care medicine
- Cardiology
- Heart failure
- Good health and well-being