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Left ventricular remodeling in the year after first anterior myocardial infarction: a quantitative analysis of contractile segment lengths and ventricular shape.

Abstract：

:Infarct expansion after myocardial infarction results in early ventricular enlargement and distortion of ventricular geometry. To characterize the components of late volume enlargement, biplane left ventriculography was performed in 52 patients 3 weeks and 1 year after a first anterior myocardial infarction. Biplane diastolic circumference and contractile and noncontractile segment lengths were measured. Global geometry was evaluated by using a sphericity index (angiographic volume of the ventricle divided by the volume of a sphere with the same circumference). Regional geometry was assessed by measurement of endocardial curvature, an important determinant of wall tension. End-diastolic volume was enlarged at baseline and increased at 1 year (230 +/- 42 to 244 +/- 55 ml, p = 0.01) as a result of increases in contractile segment length (34 +/- 5 to 37 +/- 5 cm, p less than 0.001) and sphericity index (0.74 +/- 0.07 to 0.76 +/- 0.08, p less than 0.001), whereas the noncontractile segment length decreased (15 +/- 6 to 12 +/- 6 cm, p less than 0.005). Curvature analysis revealed a flattening of presumably high tension concavity at the anterobasal (-6.0 +/- 4.0 to -4.5 +/- 3.7, p less than 0.01) and inferior (-4.5 +/- 2.0 to -3.6 +/- 2.1, p less than 0.005) margins of the infarct and less bulging of the anterior wall (9.4 +/- 2.5 to 8.2 +/- 2.3, p less than 0.001). Patients selected for late enlargement (diastolic volume increase greater than 20 ml, n = 19) had an increase in sphericity (0.75 +/- 0.05 to 0.80 +/- 0.08, p less than 0.005) and in diastolic circumference (54 +/- 3 to 56 +/- 4 cm, p less than 0.001) secondary to elongation of the contractile segment (32 +/- 4 to 36 +/- 4 cm, p = 0.001) at 1 year. Thus, late ventricular enlargement after anterior infarction results from an increase in contractile segment length and a change in ventricular geometry and is not a result of progressive infarct expansion. In the group of patients at high risk for late ventricular enlargement because of persistent occlusion of the infarct-related vessel, captopril therapy attenuated late volume enlargement by preventing these changes in contractile segment length and chamber geometry.

journal_name

J Am Coll Cardiol

journal_title

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

authors

Mitchell GF,Lamas GA,Vaughan DE,Pfeffer MA

doi

10.1016/0735-1097(92)90314-d

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-05-01 00:00:00

pages

1136-44

issue

eissn

0735-1097

issn

1558-3597

pii

0735-1097(92)90314-D

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Left ventricular remodeling in the year after first anterior myocardial infarction: a quantitative analysis of contractile segment lengths and ventricular shape.