title: Prediction of postinfarction remodeling of the left ventricle from parameters of tissue Doppler echocardiography.
abstract: The possibility of predicting undesirable postinfarction remodeling of the left ventricle from parameters of tissue doppler echocardiography was evaluated in 55 patients with a history of acute myocardial infarction. Low diastolic rates of normal segments and the absence of the peak of isovolumetric contraction in the dysfunction zone were the most significant predictors of unfavorable remodeling.
authors.affiliation: M. S. Kushakovskii Department of Cardiology, St. Petersburg Medical Upgrading Academy, Russian Ministry of Health, Russia. l_berstein@yahoo.com
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Berstein
authors.forename: Yu N
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Grishkin
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Novikov
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D020257:Ventricular Remodeling / Q000502:physiology*