Vnitr Lek 1989, 35(5):425-432

[Comparison of changes in the mobility of the left ventricular wall with coronarographic findings in patients after myocardial infarct].

L Elbl, V Chaloupka, R Soucek, S Janousek, J Toman, J Zák

The authors examined by echocardiography at rest and after exertion a group of 55 patients after a clinically confirmed first transmural infarction. They compared the echocardiographic findings with coronarographic ones. The finding at rest, as regards impaired mobility of the left ventricular wall, corresponded to the clinical finding and the coronarographic finding. By diagnosis of the extended asynergy of contraction during an isometric load it was not possible to differentiate the functional and organic cause of impaired mobility and thus to assess the extent of the coronary affection. The impaired mobility of the left ventricular wall is associated above all with the state of the blood supply rather than with the finding on the coronary artery.

Keywords: Adult; Coronary Angiography; Echocardiography; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Myocardial Contraction; Myocardial Infarction, diagnostic imaging,

Published: May 1, 1989  Show citation