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HCM care and rhythm-risk assessment continue after obstruction is treated.","research_credit":{"name":"Yevhenii Kozlov","role":"Co-Founder of Bookimed","url":"https://us-uk.bookimed.com/ceo/kozlov/","contribution":"Research personally prepared and reviewed","assistance":"AI tools assisted source research."},"editorial_scope":"Source-based patient information; an individual treatment plan requires clinical review.","research_method":"How this guide is researched and compared Research project led by Yevhenii Kozlov . We link clinical guidance, primary studies and named hospital or offer sources beside the relevant statements. Comparisons distinguish individual operators from programme results and preserve the study population, follow-up and limitations. Prices are dated examples with their stated scope. Research and editorial preparation are separate from clinical review; no named clinician has medically reviewed this edition. Bookimed provides care coordination. Partner and reference programmes are identified from their sources; paid ordering is not used in our published-cohort comparison. Read the editorial policy .","key_takeaways":[{"label":"6 named clinics and specialist centres","text":"Cleveland Clinic, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Policlinico di Monza, NYU Langone and other named teams.","sources":["cleveland-hcm1559","rank-cui148","depth-ferrazzi-2026","depth-nyu-hcm"]},{"label":"100 patients in the MESM study","text":"The Zhejiang series reported mean outflow gradient falling from 85.8 to 8.4 mmHg through a 4–5 cm underarm incision.","sources":["rank-cui100"]},{"label":"$25,000–40,000 Cui programme budget","text":"Estimated programme cost of $25,000–40,000 USD. Cleveland and NYU provide individual quotations.","sources":[]}],"benefits":[{"text":"Myectomy can directly remove the obstructing muscle and allow associated mitral or subvalvular correction in the same operation.","sources":["C10"]},{"text":"Preserving the breastbone removes a major recovery burden: healing a surgically divided sternum. Daily movement can focus on comfort, the chest-wall wound and gradually rebuilding activity.","sources":["tp-cui100","br-sternum-gstt"]}],"limitations":[{"text":"Myectomy carries surgical and conduction risks, including a possible pacemaker. It treats obstruction rather than every aspect of HCM; small-incision cohorts do not prove faster full recovery than matched conventional surgery.","sources":["DX10","rank-cui100"]}],"sections":[{"id":"directory","title":"HCM and septal myectomy clinics and specialist centres","text":"HCM and septal myectomy clinics and specialist centres 6 programmes shown Select up to 3 hospitals to compare their reported services and teams. View selected hospitals ↓ Miller Family Pavilion at Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, home to the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. · Photo source United States · Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Clinic HCM and septal myectomy clinical focus Cleveland’s HCM programme includes myectomy and associated mitral or subvalvular correction when indicated by anatomy. Procedures and specialists mitral valve repair robotic mitral surgery aortic valve replacement minimally invasive cardiac surgery HCM / septal myectomy transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI/TAVR) Nicholas Smedira → Read the clinic profile ↗ What this means for your choice The linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods. HCM and septal myectomy guide ↗ Clinic, specialists and research → Compare this hospital Sources: Nicholas Smedira, MD — Cleveland Clinic · Surgical management of LVOT obstruction in a specialized HOCM center Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus, Rochester, Minnesota. · Photo source United States · Rochester, Minnesota Mayo Clinic Rochester HCM and septal myectomy clinical focus Mayo Rochester describes septal and selected apical myectomy pathways. Procedures and specialists septal myectomy Joseph A. Dearani → Read the clinic profile ↗ What this means for your choice The linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods. HCM and septal myectomy guide ↗ Clinic, specialists and research → Compare this hospital Sources: Mayo Clinic · HCM treatment options · Mayo · 67 patients with apical aneurysm repair Tisch Hospital lobby, NYU Langone Health. · Photo source United States · New York NYU Langone HCM and septal myectomy clinical focus NYU’s HCM programme combines medical assessment, imaging and surgery, with Swistel and Scheinerman in named surgical roles. Procedures and specialists HCM myectomy with mitral repair transcatheter tricuspid therapies Daniel G. Swistel → Joshua A. Scheinerman → Read the clinic profile ↗ What this means for your choice The linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods. HCM and septal myectomy guide ↗ Clinic, specialists and research → Compare this hospital Sources: NYU Langone · HCM programme · NYU HCM programme · Resect–plicate–release · 77-patient study (2015) · NYU first robotic myectomy clinical case Policlinico di Monza, photographed with the hospital’s sign and grounds. · Photo source Italy · Monza Policlinico di Monza HCM and septal myectomy clinical focus Monza’s HCM work combines septal myectomy with correction of selected abnormal secondary mitral chordae. Procedures and specialists HCM septal myectomy with secondary mitral chordal cutting Paolo Ferrazzi → Read the clinic profile ↗ What this means for your choice The linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods. HCM and septal myectomy guide ↗ Clinic, specialists and research → Compare this hospital Sources: Ferrazzi et al. · JACC 2026 · 350 patients · Policlinico di Monza · heart centre brochure (2023) China · Wuhan Tongji Hospital Wuhan HCM and septal myectomy clinical focus Tongji’s team developed transapical beating-heart myectomy, reaching the septum through the heart’s apex without cardiopulmonary bypass in the studied technique. Procedures and specialists transapical beating-heart septal myectomy Xiang Wei → Read the clinic profile ↗ What this means for your choice The linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods. HCM and septal myectomy guide ↗ Clinic, specialists and research → Compare this hospital Sources: Tongji Hospital · cardiovascular surgery department · TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhaohui campus, Hangzhou. Photo: Huandy618, January 2025 (CC0). · Photo source China · Hangzhou Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital HCM and septal myectomy clinical focus Zhejiang’s published HCM work includes infra-axillary transaortic myectomy and a separate newer MESM technique. Procedures and specialists published transaortic septal myectomy via right infra-axillary incision provider-described trans-axillary minimally invasive valve procedures Yong Cui → Read the clinic profile ↗ What this means for your choice The linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods. HCM and septal myectomy guide ↗ Clinic, specialists and research → Compare this hospital Sources: An innovative minimally invasive approach for HOCM: transaortic septal myectomy via right infra-axillary incision · Minimally Invasive Electro Septal Myectomy for HOCM Through a Right Infra-Axillary Incision Your hospital comparison Compare the treatment each team would propose for the same scan, anatomy and recovery goals.","links":[{"label":"Photo source","url":"https://my.clevelandclinic.org/mobile-apps/diet"},{"label":"Cleveland Clinic","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinic-cleveland/"},{"label":"Nicholas Smedira →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-nicholas-smedira/"},{"label":"Read the clinic profile ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinic-cleveland/"},{"label":"HCM and septal myectomy guide ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/hcm-myectomy/"},{"label":"Clinic, specialists and research →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinic-cleveland/"},{"label":"Nicholas Smedira, MD — Cleveland Clinic","url":"https://providers.clevelandclinic.org/provider/nicholas-smedira/4268212"},{"label":"Surgical management of LVOT obstruction in a specialized HOCM center","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.11.148"},{"label":"Photo source","url":"https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-visitor-guide/minnesota/campus-buildings-maps/mayo-clinic-hospital-saint-marys-campus"},{"label":"Mayo Clinic Rochester","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinic-mayo-rochester/"},{"label":"Joseph A. 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Sources: AHA/ACC HCM guidance (2024) Preserving the breastbone removes a major recovery burden: healing a surgically divided sternum. Daily movement can focus on comfort, the chest-wall wound and gradually rebuilding activity. Sources: MESM: 100-patient observational study · Guy’s and St Thomas’: breastbone healing and movement after heart surgery Trade-offs and limits Myectomy carries surgical and conduction risks, including a possible pacemaker. It treats obstruction rather than every aspect of HCM; small-incision cohorts do not prove faster full recovery than matched conventional surgery. Sources: Septal myectomy: procedure and risks · Minimally Invasive Electro Septal Myectomy for HOCM Through a Right Infra-Axillary Incision","links":[{"label":"AHA/ACC HCM guidance (2024)","url":"https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/ten-points-to-remember/2024/05/06/15/12/2024-hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy-gl"},{"label":"MESM: 100-patient observational study","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41109584/"},{"label":"Guy’s and St Thomas’: breastbone healing and movement after heart surgery","url":"https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/health-information/physiotherapy-heart-surgery"},{"label":"Septal myectomy: procedure and risks","url":"https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17461-septal-myectomy"},{"label":"Minimally Invasive Electro Septal Myectomy for HOCM Through a Right Infra-Axillary Incision","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.09.023"}]},{"id":"selection","title":"How these clinics and specialist centres were selected","text":"How these clinics and specialist centres were selected This list contains 6 clinics and specialist centres with a documented hcm and septal myectomy focus in our source-linked directory. It is an editorial shortlist, not a census or an outcome ranking. Institutional expertise and published study results are identified separately. An individual doctor may participate in several treatment pathways; a study of one procedure does not establish outcomes for another. How we find specialists ↗ HCM & myectomy ↗","links":[{"label":"How we find specialists ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/specialist-research-method/"},{"label":"HCM & myectomy ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/hcm-myectomy/"}]}],"introduction":"Heart surgery guide / Compare clinics / HCM and septal myectomy clinics and specialist centres HCM and septal myectomy clinics and specialist centres · Decision guide HCM and septal myectomy clinics and specialist centres 6 clinics and specialist centres with linked profiles, clinical focus and attributable evidence. Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of Bookimed Updated 8 October 2026 Sources linked throughout At a glance HCM and septal myectomy clinics and specialist centres differ in the anatomy they treat, techniques they offer and evidence they publish. Septal myectomy removes selected thickened heart muscle to relieve obstruction in symptomatic HCM. The operation can also address contributing mitral or supporting structures. HCM care and rhythm-risk assessment continue after obstruction is treated. 6 named clinics and specialist centres Cleveland Clinic, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Policlinico di Monza, NYU Langone and other named teams. Sources: Surgical management of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in a specialized hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy center · An innovative minimally invasive approach for HOCM: transaortic septal myectomy via right infra-axillary incision · Ferrazzi et al. · JACC 2026 · 350 patients · NYU Langone · HCM programme 100 patients in the MESM study The Zhejiang series reported mean outflow gradient falling from 85.8 to 8.4 mmHg through a 4–5 cm underarm incision. Sources: Minimally Invasive Electro Septal Myectomy for HOCM Through a Right Infra-Axillary Incision $25,000–40,000 Cui programme budget Estimated programme cost of $25,000–40,000 USD. 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