minimally invasive intervention during which the septal perforator coronary arteries are identified and alcohol is infused. This causes thrombosis and infarction of the interventricular septum.

Until the early 1990s, surgical myectomy represented the standard treatment for patients with HOCM and drug-refractory symptoms. Then in 1995 alcohol septal ablation was introduced as a less ...

When an anterior myocardial infarction extends to the septal and lateral regions as well, the culprit lesion is usually more proximal in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD ...