Comprehensive HCM Care - Evaluation of risk of sudden death
- Genetic counseling
- Evaluation of HCM-related arrhythmias
- Medical and device therapy
- Alcohol septal ablation
- Open heart surgery
Alcohol Septal Ablation - This catheter-based procedure treats hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).
- Absolute alcohol is injected via a catheter into the enlarged septum, killing cells to reduce obstruction.
- Patients begin to feel better almost immediately, and symptoms continue to improve over weeks and months.
- The procedure was first introduced in the U.S. by MUSC’s William H. Spencer III, M.D.
- MUSC Heart & Vascular Center has performed more than almost any other medical center in the nation.
- MUSC’s specialists perform 75 to 80 of these procedures annually with an international referral base.
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy - Complex heart disease that involves myocardium thickening, left ventricular stiffness, mitral valve changes and cellular changes
- Occurs in one in 500 people
- The most common cause of sudden cardiac death among people under age 30 in the U.S.
- Many HCM patients die suddenly every year
- Most HCM patients have hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
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