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Spectrum of Functional Abnormalities and Importance of Wall Motion Disturbances During Convalescent Phase

Ali Ehsani, MD; Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, MB, FRCP; M. Ziad Sinno, MD; Henry S. Loeb, MD; Kenneth M. Rosen, MD; Rolf M. Gunnar, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1975;135(12):1539-1547.

Abstract
• Seventeen patients underwent catheterization of the right and left sides of the heart and left ventricular (LV) angiography three to six weeks after acute myocardial infarction. Fourteen of 17 patients had abnormal LV function. Three patients had altered LV diastolic properties; five patients had abnormalities of diastolic properties and of systolic function; and six patients had abnormal systolic function, but diastolic function could not be assessed. Thirteen of the 14 patients with abnormal LV function had LV wall motion abnormalities, which were quantitatively related to impaired LV systolic function.

(Arch Intern Med 135:1539-1547,1975)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Adult Cardiology and the Division of Medicine, Hektoen Institute for Medical Research, Cook County Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.

Footnotes
Received for publication Dec 6, 1974; accepted April 30, 1975.

Reprint requests to Department of Medicine, University of Oregon Medical School, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97201 (Dr Rahimtoola).

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