Efficacy and Safety of Echocardiography-guided Percutaneous Intraventricular Septal Radiofrequency Ablation for Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy After Alcohol Septal Ablation

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiovascular disease, mostly due to mutations in the gene encoding myocardial sarcomere contractile protein, with an incidence of about 1:500-1:200. HCM is the main cause of sudden cardiac death in young people and athletes. Its clinical manifestations are highly heterogeneous. Some patients have no obvious symptoms or mild symptoms, but some patients have obvious myocardial hypertrophy in the early stage, resulting in chest tightness, chest pain, breathing difficulties, syncope, heart failure, and even sudden cardiac death. The annual mortality rate of HCM patients is about 1.4% -2.2%. Alcohol septal ablation (ASA) is a kind of interventional therapy. Its principle is to inject anhydrous alcohol through a catheter, occlude the septal branch of the coronary artery, make the hypertrophic ventricular septal myocardium that dominates it ischemic, necrosis, thinning, and contractility decrease, so that the obstruction of the outflow tract disappears or alleviates, thereby improving the clinical symptoms of patients. However, HOCM patients often have serious clinical symptoms and adverse complications after alcohol ablation, and invasive surgical treatment is required when adequate drug therapy is not effective or cannot tolerate the side effects of drugs. Liwen surgery is a safe and effective new path to treat minimally invasive HOCM patients, so the purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Liwen surgery after alcohol ablation in HOCM patients, and to verify its early postoperative efficacy.