Internal medicine

Heart failure

Genetic testing

Obstructive cardiomyopathy

Biology

Gene

Cardiology

Surgery

Septal myectomy

Cardiomyopathy

Ventricle

Interventricular septum

Gene mutation

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Mutation

Gene isoform

MYH7

Genetics

Medicine

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Septal myectomy offers good results in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). Over the past few years, the availability of genetic testing has increased. Whether certain types of mutations have better outcomes remains unknown. The aim of this study is to analyse short and mid-term outcomes of patients with HOCM who had a genetic test performed prior to septal myectomy.

WHAT DOES GENETIC TESTING TELL US ABOUT OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING SEPTAL MYECTOMY FOR HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY?