Choice of Septal Reduction Therapies and Alcohol Septal Ablation

In patients with resting or provoked gradients and symptoms refractory to optimal medical therapy, alcohol septal ablation or surgical septal myectomy may be considered. Given the overall comparable outcomes after ablation and myectomy, there is, for many patients, equipoise between the two procedures. Septal ablation is performed with standard angioplasty guiding catheters, guidewires, and balloon catheters. In the Euro-ASA registry, NYHA...