title: [Topographic aspects of threatened extension of transmural myocardial infarction. Electrocardiographic and coronarographic data].
abstract: The topographical and physiopathological aspects of the danger of extension of infarction of the myocardium are defined with the aid of data collected by electrocardiogram and coronarography in 50 patients. The danger of extension in situ, observed in 64% of the cases, is the most frequent and complicates particularly the progression of anterior infarcts. In fact, it is located in the same area as the initial infarct in 91% of the cases for anterior infarcts and in 40% of the cases for inferior infarcts. It is expressed by an elevation of the ST segment in 84% of the cases and corresponds to a monotruncular attack in 63% of the cases. The downstream bed of the vessel destined for the infarcted area and threatened secondarily remains permeable in the anterograde sense. Apart from infarcts, the danger of extension is less frequent, found in 36% of the cases, and complicates preferentially the progression of inferior infarcts. It finds expression in a depression of the ST segment in 77% of the cases and the coronary attack is always pluritruncular. The mortality in one month is 35% of 17 patients treated medically and 3% of 33 patients who have been equipped with a shunt or angioplasty. In situ the danger of extension denotes the presence of cellular islets, which are still healthy, in the region of an infarcted myocardial zone, the viability of which may be threatened secondarily by a phenomenon of coronary occlusion, which is intermittent and repeated. Except for an infarct, the danger of extension implies the diffusion of an atheromatous effect. The good results of surgical treatment or dilatation argues in favour of an early coronarographic exploration.
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Aspects topographiques de la menace d'extension d'infarctus du myocarde transmural. Données électrocardiographiques et coronarographiques.