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Has anyone had minimally invasive Septal Myectomy?
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) | Last Active: Jan 8 9:58am | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
You are wise to study this minimally invasive procedure further. I wonder if the exact location of the myectomy is significant in the success rate. It is not uncommon for septal myectomy patients to need a pacemaker (it was decided I needed one 4 months after my surgery). When choosing where to have surgery, I chose a COE place, extremely glad I did. That said, one size does not fit all.
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Thank you. I’ve been doing more research and I have definitely decided to use a COE. I think you are right there are a lot of factors that Would make for the perfect candidate for robotic. But it is still a very new procedure, I can’t really find much (basically one article about 3 patients) in the published medical literature and I work at a University and know how to find the literature.
May I ask did you have to go out of state for your surgery? I’m very curious about what that looks like, for example how long do you have to stay close by the hospital after discharge, if all goes well?
I would love to go to Mayo but that is a long drive home to Texas, even after a couple of weeks post discharge!