EVALUATION OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH NON-Q-WAVE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION AND ITS CORRELATION WITH UNDERLYING CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE

Authors
PANOU FK PAPAPANAGIOTOU VA VOUROS LE MATSAKAS EP KARAVIDAS AI LIANIDIS GD DOUNIS GB ZACHAROULIS AA
Citation
Fk. Panou et al., EVALUATION OF LEFT-VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH NON-Q-WAVE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION AND ITS CORRELATION WITH UNDERLYING CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE, The American journal of cardiology, 80(10), 1997, pp. 1356
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
80
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)80:10<1356:EOLDFI>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Left ventricular diastolic function was studied by Doppler echocardiog raphy in 35 patients with non-Q-wave myocardial infarction, on the thi rd and tenth day of hospitalization and six weeks after hospitalizatio n and was correlated with electrocardiogram, serum enzyme values, and angiographic data. Normal diastolic function on the first echocardiogr aphic study predicted (p = 0.0001) the existence of no or single-vesse l disease, and excluded (p = 0.005) the presence of 3-vessel or left m ain disease, whereas an abnormal study on either the second or third e chocardiographic discriminated (p = 0.0001), with higher sensitivity ( 80.97%, 92.31%, respectively), patients with 3-vessel or left main ves sel disease.