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RV assessment is not routinely performed on echocardiography, yet patients with acute inferior wall myocardial infarction who develop RV myocardial infarction carry a poor prognosis.
Does echocardiographic assessment of right ventricular function predict proximal right coronary artery occlusion in patients with thrombolysed acute inferior wall myocardial infarction?
Does echocardiographic assessment of right ventricular function predict proximal right coronary artery occlusion in patients with thrombolysed acute inferior wall myocardial infarction?
Echocardiographic parameters like FAC, TAPSE, RV S', and MPI can effectively identify right ventricular dysfunction in post-thrombolysed inferior wall MI, which strongly predicts proximal right coronary artery occlusion.
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Routine RV assessment in IWMI may aid risk stratification; leaves open need for prospective validation of echo protocols.
Sabapathy Kannappan (2021) studied this question.
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