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Two-dimensional echocardiography for the assessment of therapeutic interventions and long-term follow-up of patients with acute myocardial infarction

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Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Disease

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

Abstract

Infarct size is the main predictor of prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction [1–3]. Dependent on infarct size regional and global left ventricular function is depressed leading to cardiogenic shock, when more than 40% of the myocardium are involved [4]. Thrombolysis therapy has been shown to be effective both preserving ventricular function [5, 6] and survival [7, 8]. For serial measurement of regional and global left ventricular function two-dimensional echocardiography seems to be an ideal bedside noninvasive method. The purpose of study was to establish the long-term effect of thrombolysis therapy on ventricular function dependent on

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  • time until reperfusion

  • completeness of reperfusion and

  • additional percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), analysed by two-dimensional echocardiography.

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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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Erbel, R., Nixdorff, U., Görge, G., Brennecke, R., Meyer, J. (1991). Two-dimensional echocardiography for the assessment of therapeutic interventions and long-term follow-up of patients with 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_20

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