There are four different categories of treatment: lifestyle changes, surgical procedures, non-surgical procedures, and medications. Lifestyle changes include a healthy diet; increased physical activity; eliminate cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and illicit drugs; and get enough rest and sleep; lose excess weight. These lifestyle changes aim to lower the patient's blood pressure, cholesterol, and reduce any other future medical conditions. There are also surgical options to help treat, prevent, or control cardiomyopathy. The surgical method includes a septal myectomy, surgically implanted devices, and a heart transplant. A septal myectomy is used to specifically treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is where the heart muscle cells enlarge and cause the walls of the ventricles to thicken. The thickening of the walls may not affect the size of the ventricles but may instead affect the blood flow out of the ventricle. Usually, along with swelling of the ventricles, the septum between the ventricles can swell and block blood flow, causing a heart attack. When medications don't work well to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a surgeon will open the chest cavity and remove part of the septum that is blocking blood flow. Surgically implanted devices include a pacemaker, cardiac resynchronization therapy device, left ventricular assist device, and an implantable device