LEFT-VENTRICULAR REMODELING IN THE YEAR AFTER 1ST ANTERIOR MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION - A QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTILE SEGMENT LENGTHS AND VENTRICULAR SHAPE
LEFT-VENTRICULAR REMODELING IN THE YEAR AFTER 1ST ANTERIOR MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION - A QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTILE SEGMENT LENGTHS AND VENTRICULAR SHAPE
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DOI:
10.1016/0735-1097(92)90314-d
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发表时间:
1992-05-01
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24
通讯作者:
PFEFFER, MA
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作者:
MITCHELL, GF;LAMAS, GA;PFEFFER, MA
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 < 0.001) and sphericity index (0.74 +/- 0.07 to 0.76 +/- 0.08, p < 0.001), whereas the noncontractile segment length decreased (15 +/- 6 to 12 +/- 6 cm, p < 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 < 0.01) and inferior (-4.5 +/- 2.0 to -3.6 +/- 2.1, p < 0.005) margins of the infarct and less bulging of the anterior wall (9.4 +/- 2.5 to 8.2 +/- 2.3, p < 0.001). Patients selected for late enlargement (diastolic volume increase > 20 ml, n = 19) had an increase in sphericity (0.75 +/- 0.05 to 0.80 +/- 0.08, p < 0.005) and in diastolic circumference (54 +/- 3 to 56 +/- 4 cm, p < 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.