THE RESPONSE OF LEFT VENTRICULAR REGIONAL FUNCTION TO AFTERLOAD STRESS IN PATIENTS WITH OLD MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND VENTRICULAR ANEURYSM

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The functional response of the left ventricle with scar to increased afterload. was examined in 15 patients with old myocardial infarction and left ventricular aneurysm (OMI). Interventional cine left ventriculography during elevating left ventricular pressure with methoxtimine. Wall motion was assessed by the radial and the centerline method. Augmented afterload didn't change ejection fraction in patients with OMI, but normalized wall motion (Z) increased in the aneurysmall region and decreased in the remote region in both methods. In the remote region in patients with OMI, afterload stress shortened left ventricular pressure-radial length (P-L) loops along length axis, and reduced percent systolic radial shortening (SS). In the aneurysmal region. P-L loops showed systolic elongation of length at rest and the slope of end-diastolic point to end-systolic point became steeper with increased afterload, resulting in a decrease of aneurysmal expansion. In summary, with increasing afterload, wall motion decreased in non-infarcted regions and increased in anertysmal regions, in left ventricles with aneurysm. This mechanism may be interpreted as afterload-induced shifts of P-L loops in each region.
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1991-12-20