title: Echocardiographic evaluation of spontaneous recovery of right ventricular systolic and diastolic function in patients with acute right ventricular infarction associated with posterior wall left ventricular infarction.
abstract: We evaluated right ventricular (RV) systolic and diastolic function in 30 patients with acute RV myocardial infarction on echocardiography. Systolic and diastolic function were impaired early in the setting of RV myocardial infarction, but improved significantly at 3 months.
authors.affiliation: First Cardiology Department, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Dimitrios G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Ketikoglou
authors.forename: Haralampos I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Karvounis
authors.forename: Christodoulos E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Papadopoulos
authors.forename: Theodora A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Zaglavara
authors.forename: Georgios K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Efthimiadis
authors.forename: Georgios E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Parharidis
authors.forename: Georgios E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Louridas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003971:Diastole / Q000502:physiology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D013599:Systole / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*