{"id":46,"date":"2017-09-07T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med-uncheartvalve.sites.unc.edu\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2017-09-12T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:48:36","slug":"ablation-and-closures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/diseases-and-treatments\/ablation-and-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ablation and Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alcohol Septal Ablation<\/h2>\n<p>In patients with thickened hearts that lead to an obstruction of outflow from the heart (hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy), alcohol septal ablation may be able to help. In this procedure, alcohol is injected into targeted vessels to thin the heart muscle in select locations. This leads to a relief of the obstruction and improvement in symptoms.<\/p>\n<h3>Perivavular Leak Closure<\/h3>\n<p>In rare cases after surgical valve replacement, leaks can form around the surgical valves.\u00a0 If the leaks are severe, they can cause shortness of breath or low blood counts due to shearing of the blood.\u00a0 In many instances, these leaks can be closed percutaneously by placing vascular plugs into the areas of leak.<\/p>\n<h3>Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Closure<\/h3>\n<p>Left atrial appendage closure is an attractive option for patients with atrial fibrillation who want to reduce their risk of stroke but cannot tolerate long-term anticoagulation.\u00a0 In this procedure, a closure device is placed via the femoral blood vessels and recovery is usually less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol Septal Ablation In patients with thickened hearts that lead to an obstruction of outflow from the heart (hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy), alcohol septal ablation may be able to help. In this procedure, alcohol is injected into targeted vessels to thin the heart muscle in select locations. This leads to a relief of the obstruction and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/diseases-and-treatments\/ablation-and-closures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ablation and Closures\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39923,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/cardiology\/uncheartvalve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}