Ventricular aneurysm: cross-sectional echocardiographic approach.
Publication/Presentation Date
12-18-1980
Abstract
Current angiographic indexes of ventricular function have proved inadequate for prognostication in patients with ventricular aneurysm. Cross-sectional echocardiography can visualize residual myocardium in all four walls of the left ventricle. A new echocardiographic technique of calculating residual myocardium is presented. The echocardiographic technique yielded identical information to that of contrast angiography (r = 0.97). An index of residual myocardium was generated from the cross-sectional echocardiogram that correlated with the clinical state of the patients. In patients treated medically it predicted those patients likely to die within 6 months (p < 0.005). Preliminary observations in patients having aneurysmectomy revealed that there were good surgical results in those with an index of residual myocardium of 0.42 or greater, but more patients are necessary to establish the lower limit of a surgically acceptable level of residual myocardium.
Volume
46
Issue
7
First Page
1133
Last Page
1137
ISSN
0002-9149
Published In/Presented At
Barrett, M. J., Charuzi, Y., & Corday, E. (1980). Ventricular aneurysm: cross-sectional echocardiographic approach. The American journal of cardiology, 46(7), 1133–1137. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9149(80)90283-0
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
6969984
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article