Left ventricular function during the early and late stages of scar formation following experimental myocardial infarction.
Left ventricular function during the early and late stages of scar formation following experimental myocardial infarction.
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实验性心肌梗死后疤痕形成早期和晚期的左心室功能。
DOI:
10.1016/0002-8703(70)90424-2
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发表时间:
1970
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
T. Regan
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作者:
A. Weisse;R. S. Saffa;G. E. Levinson;W. W. Jacobson;T. Regan
To evaluate changes in left ventricular (LV) function after myocardial infarction (MI), anesthetized closed-chest dogs were studied following survival from acute nonmassive MI induced by thrombus formed on a catheter electrode in either branch of the left main coronary artery. Seven dogs were studied 3 to 4 weeks after MI (early scar formation) and 12 dogs 6 to 8 weeks after MI (late scar formation). Ten normal dogs with heart rates and aortic pressures similar to the MI groups served as controls. LV function was evaluated at rest and during afterloading with angiotensin.In both the early and late stages of scar formation, the infarcted ventricles had normal end-diastolic volumes and normal isovolumetric velocity-force length relationships but elevated resting end-diastolic pressures. LV ejection-rate functions (stroke power, mean rate of ejection, and mean rate of circumferential fiber shortening) were reduced after MI, the differences becoming statistically significant by 6 to 8 weeks. There were no significant differences found between the two infarct groups. With augmented afterloading, LV function after MI appeared depressed when stroke work was plotted against LV end-diastolic pressure but not when plotted against end-diastolic circumference. Thus, although its length-tension (Frank-Starling) characteristics and isovolumetric velocity-force-length (contractility) relationships were not altered, the healing infarcted ventricle exhibited reduced velocity of shortening during ejection and increased LV end-diastolic pressure which, in the absence of evidence of cardiac decompensation, probably reflects a reduced compliance.