A left ventricular form change of patients with old myocardial infarction assessed by echocardiography
- Author:
Tuong Quy Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
myocardial infarction
- MeSH:
Myocardial Infarction;
Echocardiography
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
1998;(1):26-31
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Echocardiography was done in 104 patients with old myocardial infarction (OMI) and 55 control subjects. Authors found out that patients with OMI accompanying with left ventricular dilation (LVIDd = 50.3+/- 8.5 mm), left ventricular mass (LVM = 187.8+/-60.9 g), and left ventricular mass index (LVMI = 118.5+/-35.7 g/m2) increased compared with control subjects. The level of left ventricular dilation relates with infarct position and quite closely correlates with heart failure class (LVIDd = 39.53 + 5.87 x heart failure; r=0.629; p<0.001). In OMI group, patients accompanying with both anterior and posterior walls, the most dilation is the left ventricular. LVM increase closely correlates with the level of left ventricular dilation (LVIDd = 30.2+0.1 x LVM; r=0.78; p<0.001) and relates lightly with interventricular Septum and diastolic wall thickness (IVSd).
