title: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty performed 24-48 hours after the onset of acute myocardial infarction improves chronic-phase left ventricular regional wall motion.
abstract: The authors investigated the capacity of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) performed 24-48 hours after the onset of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) to improve regional left ventricular wall motion. Twenty-four patients were divided into two groups: a PTCA group who received successful PTCA (14 cases) and a non-PTCA group (10 cases) who did not receive PTCA. Left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV) increased significantly (p<0.01) from 57+/-14 mL/m2 during the acute phase to 83+/-16 mL/m2 during the chronic phase in the non-PTCA group, whereas no significant change in LVEDV was seen in the PTCA group (69+/-26 vs. 76+/-16 mL/m2). In addition, in patients with 99% stenosis/thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) grade 3 flow, increases in regional left ventricular wall motion (delta(sd)/chord) at the infarcted site between the acute and chronic phases were significantly greater in the PTCA group than in the non-PTCA group (2.49+/-1.05 vs. 0.67+/-0.65, p<0.01). PTCA performed 24-48 hours after the onset of AMI improved wall motion at the infarcted site.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. kanamasa@med.kindai.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kanamasa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakabayashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morii
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Naito
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D013997:Time Factors; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left