This study demonstrates a high prevalence of left ventricular functional and wall motion abnormalities during the convalescent phase of acute myocardial infarction.
No immediate change to post-MI care; leaves open prevalence and implications of LV abnormalities in larger cohorts.
Seventeen patients underwent catheterization of the right and left sides of the heart and left ventricular (LV) angiography three to six weeks after acute myocardial infarction. Fourteen of 17 patients had abnormal LV function. Three patients had altered LV diastolic properties; five patients had abnormalities of diastolic properties and of systolic function; and six patients had abnormal systolic function, but diastolic function could not be assessed. Thirteen of the 14 patients with abnormal LV function had LV wall motion abnormalities, which were quantitatively related to impaired LV systolic function.
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Ali A. Ehsani (1975) studied this question.
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