title: [Quantitative evaluation of myocardial ischemia using imaging methods].
abstract: Secondary prevention of myocardial infarction includes all measures likely to reduce morbidity and mortality after the infarction. It is a highly heterogeneous concept applied to a highly heterogeneous disease. The natural history of myocardial infarction, which must be known to determine the frequency of critical events and hence devise a trial, is incomplete particularly since treatment capable of altering this history (aorto-coronary bypass, thrombolysis) have been introduced. Future trials in secondary prevention of myocardial infarction must concentrate on such important questions as: can the possibilities of reperfusion be extended as regards the acute phase, and which preventive measures are useful to patients at high risk post-infarction? The A.P.S.I. study (acetolol in the secondary prevention of myocardial infarction) is an example of study aimed at answering the second question.
mesh_terms: D000790:Angiocardiography; D002932:Cineangiography; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D012008:Recurrence
vernacular_title: Evaluation quantitative de l'ischémie myocardique par les méthodes d'imagerie.