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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 26, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(15):1769-1770; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl127
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Alcohol relaxes the stiff heart

Hisham Dokainish and Nasser Lakkis*

Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 713 873 2083; fax: +1 713 873 4903. E-mail address: nlakkis@bcm.tmc.edu

This editorial refers to ‘Sustained improvement in left ventricular diastolic function after alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy’{dagger} by D.S. Jassal et al., on page 1805

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Dynamic obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) has been related to symptoms of dyspnoea, angina, and syncope in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). In 1995, Sigwart1 introduced an ingenious catheter-based technique for septal reduction by infusing a small amount of absolute ethanol into the first or second septal arteries supplying the obstructing septal bulge. Alcohol induces a well-demarcated septal base scar corresponding to, on average, 9% of the left ventricle (LV), which can be . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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