title: [X-ray characteristics of heart failure in patients with acute myocardial infarction].
abstract: The results of routine chest X-ray made in 250 males aged 22-69 years who had acute myocardial infarction were evaluated. The data were compared with the results of ECG, echocardiography, Judkins coronarography, and left ventriculography. The X-ray signs of pulmonary venous hypertension in acute myocardial infarction, even not followed by cardiomegalia suggest lower left ventricular myocardial contractility. In this connection, the significance of follow-up X-ray monitoring becomes higher. In 25% of the young patients (aged 22-40 years) with prior acute myocardial infarction, the dimensions of the heart may be in the normal ranges even in the presence of X-ray signs of venous congestion. If there are no signs of mitral regurgitation in patients with ischemic heart disease, the enlarged left atrium may be regarded as an indirect X-ray sign of reduced left ventricular contractility. The extent of necrosis in patients with myocardial infarction exerts an impact on hemodynamic changes in the lung.
authors.affiliation: Russian Cardiology Research Production Center of MZ RF, Moscow.
authors.forename: Z S
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Tsallagova
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Savchenko
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic