title: Angiographic assessment of surgical reconstructions for left ventricular asynergy with indices of abnormally contracting segments.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In surgical reconstruction for left ventricular asynergy after myocardial infarction, the conventional linear closure technique second to simple resection and endoventricular circular patch plasty, which is the so-called Dor technique, are commonly utilized. We assessed these techniques using an abnormally contracting segment (ACS) in the left ventriculogram.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reviewed 10 and 15 patients who underwent the linear technique (group L) and the Dor technique (group D), respectively. %ACS was determined as the percent ratio of both akinetic and dyskinetic chords among the total chords in the centerline method of regional wall motion analysis. A difference between preoperative and postoperative ejection fraction (EF) was generated by preoperative EF and this percentage ratio was determined as %EF.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Postoperative EF improved from 31% to 41% in group L and from 33% to 49% in group D (p<0.05). Postoperative EF in group D was higher than in group L (p<0.05). %ACS decreased from 41% to 34% in group L and from 41% to 19% in group D (p<0.05). Postoperative %ACS was lower in group D than in group L (p<0.05). The significant correlation between preoperative %ACS and %EF was negative in group L and positive in group D (p<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Dor technique is more effective for the postoperative systolic function than the linear technique because more extensive reduction in %ACS is possible with the Dor technique than with the linear technique. Dor technique becomes more crucial to the postoperative systolic function as the preoperative %ACS becomes larger.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Toyama Japan Red Cross Hospital, Ushijimahon-machi 2-1-58, Toyama 930-0859, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsutsumi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hige
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohnaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013318:Stroke Volume / Q000502:physiology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*