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Left ventricular shape changes and modelling during acute myocardial infarction

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Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 113))

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Abstract

During acute transmural ischemia the ipoxic myocardium, unable to develop adequate pressure, undergoes a process of passive stretching secondary to the contraction of the nonischemic muscle [1]. Concomitantly, the opposing non-ischemic myocardium demonstrates an increase in wall thickening or shortening [2–3]. The combined effect of these different regional and global deformations would be to alter the shape of the left ventricle (Figure 1).

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  1. Department of Cardiology, University of Bari, I-70124, Bari, Italy

    Sabino Iliceto  & Paolo Rizzon  & 

  2. Thorax Center, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

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Marino, P., Golia, G., Zardini, P. (1991). Left ventricular shape changes and modelling during acute myocardial infarction. In: Iliceto, S., Rizzon, P., Roelandt, J.R.T.C. (eds) Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 113. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0611-2_12

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