title: The case for echocardiography in acute myocardial infarction.
abstract: Acute myocardial infarction occurs after a period of profound myocardial ischemia. Ischemia of this degree immediately produces a regional contraction abnormality, which is readily detectable by echocardiography before the onset of necrosis. Echocardiography has been used both experimentally and clinically as a guide to the functional extent of myocardial involvement in evolving infarction and hence provides an objective anatomic basis for electing therapeutic interventions and assessing a prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Brockton/West Roxbury Veterans Administration Medical Center, MA 02132.
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Parisi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology*