How To Effectively Treat Cardiomyopathy

Surgery

Patients whose cardiomyopathy has advanced beyond medication often turn to surgery to manage this issue. Septal myectomy is probably the most common of the operations available. It involves opening up the chest to cut away thickened heart muscle. This muscle is carefully trimmed, not removed, to ensure no cardiac arrest occurs.

Once this surgical treatment is finished, the blood should flow more efficiently throughout the heart. This treatment is most often focused on the septal wall of the heart located between the left ventricle and aorta. Most patients who receive this type of therapy will feel an almost immediate improvement in their cardiomyopathy symptoms and may be able to do many things they were unable to due to the disease.

One nice thing about this method is it's minimally invasive, as the heart is not exposed the way it would be in open-heart treatments. Instead, a small cannula is inserted into a small incision on the chest to inspect the heart and cut away the thickened muscle.

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