title: Evaluation of left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction. Two-dimensional echocardiography versus radionuclide angiography. Study of 50 patients.
abstract: Two-dimensional echocardiography and gated blood radionuclide angiography was performed in 50 patients (mean age 51.3 years; 48 men and 2 women) after acute myocardial infarction, before discharge from the hospital. The aim of this study was to compare the wall motion score, determined by two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE), with the ejection fraction obtained by radionuclide angiography (RNA). The correlation between the results obtained by 2DE and RNA was good (r = 0.75; p less than 0.0001). We conclude that 2DE is a powerful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of left ventricular function.
authors.affiliation: S. João Hospital, Porto Medical School, Portugal.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Macedo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Maciel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gonçalves
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ramalhão
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van Zeller
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gomes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013318:Stroke Volume; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left