IMMEDIATE DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
IMMEDIATE DIAGNOSIS OF ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION BY TWO-DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.65.2.323
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
PAULETTO, FJ
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作者:
HOROWITZ, RS;MORGANROTH, J;PAULETTO, FJ
To define the role of portable 2-dimensional echocardiography (2-D echo) in the immediate diagnosis of acute chest pain syndrome, 80 consecutive patients were studied. Adequate 2-D echo studies were obtained in 65 (81%). Thirty-three patients had clinical evidence of transmural or nontransmural acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 18 of whom had nondiagnostic initial ECG. Thirty-two did not have a clinical AMI. Thirty-one of the 33 (94%) patients with clinical AMI had regional wall motion abnormalities on the initial 2-D echo; the other 2 had uncomplicated nonstransmural AMI, diagnosed only by ECG in one and by ECG and moderate elevation of CK[creatine kinase]-MB isoenzyme in the other. Of the 32 patients without clinical AMI, 37 had normal regional wall motion on the initial 2-D echo and none had a complication (severe arrhythmia, recurrent pain, heart failure or death) during the hospital course. Conversely, 10 of the 36 patients with initial 2-D echo regional wall motion abnormalities had a complication (P < 0.05). In patients with acute chest pain syndrome, an initial 2-D echo that shows no regional wall motion abnormality suggests that such patients will not develop an AMI or clinical complication during the hospital course. An initial 2-D echo with regional wall motion abnormality identifies a high-risk group of patients who are likely to have AMI and important cardiac complications and may, therefore, benefit from admission to an intensive care unit.