Septal Ablation

A cardiac catheterization procedure to relieve symptoms in patients with severe obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A catheter is used to inject alcohol into a septal artery supplying the heart muscle responsible for the obstruction, destroying the muscle tissue and relieving the obstruction. (NCI Thesaurus)

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