Discount treatment for HOCM: as good as surgery?

This editorial refers to ‘Long-term clinical outcome after alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: results from the Euro-ASA registry’[†][1], by J. Veselka et al ., on page 1517. At a recent cardiology meeting in Geneva, one of my former colleagues quoted a remark I had made in the early 1980s during a heart-team meeting on hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) at the University of Lausanne: ‘Wouldn't it...