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According to pathological and scintigraphic studies, right ventricular infarction (RVI) can be seen in more than 40% of patients with acute inferior myocardial infarction, but its clinical feature with an elevated systemic venous pressure, clear lungs, and arterial hypotension is often unapparent [1, 2, 3]. Early diagnosis of right ventricular infarction, however, is important with respect to therapeutic interventions, such as volume loading, in order to improve cardiac output and systolic arterial pressure. Two-dimensional echocardiography has been shown to be useful in detecting right ventricular abnormalities secondary to right ventricular infarction [4@#x2013;7].
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Rupprecht, HJ., Erbel, R., Schöter, KH., Schreiner, G., Hennrichs, KL., Meyer, J. (1985). Right ventricular infarction: Echocardiography hemodynamic feature. In: Meyer, J., Erbel, R., Rupprecht, H.J. (eds) Improvement of Myocardial Perfusion. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5032-0_16
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