Evaluation of left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction. Two-dimensional echocardiography versus radionuclide angiography. Study of 50 patients.

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1991

Authors

Macedo F (Author) FMUP; Martins L (Author) FMUP; Maciel MJ (Author) FMUP; Gonçalves R (Author) FMUP; Ramalhão C (Author) FMUP; van Zeller P (Author) FMUP; Gomes MC (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Acta Cardiologica

Vol. 46 No. 1

Pages: 39-42

ISSN: 0001-5385

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Clinical medicine

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Abstract (EN): Two-dimensional echocardiography and gated blood radionuclide angiography was performed in 50 patients (mean age 51.3 years; 48 men and 2 women) after acute myocardial infarction, before discharge from the hospital. The aim of this study was to compare the wall motion score, determined by two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE), with the ejection fraction obtained by radionuclide angiography (RNA). The correlation between the results obtained by 2DE and RNA was good (r = 0.75; p less than 0.0001). We conclude that 2DE is a powerful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of left ventricular function.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific