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Percutaneous septal myotomy (SESAME)

Date: May 9, 2022

Question:

Are you familiar with a SESAME procedure? Our MD is doing this and describes a percutaneous septal myotomy procedure for severe hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy where he will puncture the septal knuckle and then snare within the LV and use an insulated electrosurgical energy to perform myotomy. This laceration is effectively the same as the original Morrow procedure and has been performed 11 times at Emory and many more times in an animal model with the NIH. Do you have any information on this? We are only coming up with unlisted 33999.

Question ID : 16474
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