Alcohol septal ablation versus surgical myectomy: A patient with obstructive HCM

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 570-576

  La Canna, Giovanni ^a   Airoldi, Flavio ^a   Capritti, Elvia ^a   Grimaldi, Antonio ^a   Colombo, Antonio ^a   Alfieri, Ottavio ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALCOHOL; AMIODARONE; DISOPYRAMIDE; METOPROLOL; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MUSCLE RESECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHANOL; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; SOLVENTS;

EID: 34848824419     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio0988     Document Type: Article

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