A Heart Attack That Heals

This article is on a new treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy( where the heart muscle gets so large that it begins to obstruct blood flow). Supposedly by causing the patient to have a small heart attack the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to go away. The small heart attack causes some of the heart muscle to die and by strategically ingecting alcohol into the heart muscle this can be achieved to the effect of decreasing the heart's muscle mass.

For more information here is the article:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/10/26/health/main21034.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories