Christopher D. Neilsen, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of South Carolina, discusses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and alcohol septal ablation.

References and Resources
Marian AJ. Genetic determinants of cardiac hypertrophy. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2008 May;23(3):199-205.

Maron BJ, Maron MS, Lesser JR, et al. Sudden cardiac arrest in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the absence of conventional criteria for high risk status. Am J Cardiol. 2008 Feb 15;101(4):544-7.

Tromp F, Devos D, De Backer J. Successful alcohol septal ablation for late recurrence of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction after surgical myectomy in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Acta Cardiol. 2008 Apr;63(2):271-5.

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