Diagnosis and prognosis of right ventricular infarction.

Diagnosis and prognosis of right ventricular infarction.

The values of several non-invasive methods for the diagnosis of right ventricular necrosis in inferior myocardial infarction were compared in 51 consecutive patients who underwent serial radionuclide ventriculography, pyrophosphate scintigraphy, and cross sectional echocardiography. In addition a unipolar electrocardiographic lead V4R was recorded on admission, daily, and during episodes of fur...

The Noninvasive Diagnosis of Right Ventricular Infarction

The pathophysiology of paroxysmal A-V block after acute myocardial ischemia. Experimental and clinical observations. Circulation 50: 515, 1974 32. Denes P, Dhingra RC, Wu D, Chuquimia R, Amat-y-Leon F, Wyndham C, Rosen KM: H-V intervals in patients with bifascicular block (right bundle branch block and left anterior hemiblock). Clinical, electrocardiographic and electrophysiologic correlation. ...

The noninvasive diagnosis of right ventricular infarction.

We evaluated scintigraphy and echocardiography for the diagnosis of right ventricular (RV) infarction. Of 26 patients with acute transmural myocardial infarction (MI), six with inferior MI had abnormal radionuclide uptake localized to the RV free wall on infarct scintigraphy or segmental akinesis of the RV free wall on gated radioangiography or both. These six patients with RV involvement (grou...

Right ventricular infarction: a haemodynamic diagnosis.

Right ventricular infarction is a rarely recognized clinical entity. This report describes a patient who perished with a massive right ventricular infarction. The pathogenesis of right ventricular infarction is discussed. Haemodynamic studies in this patient suggest that an increase of right atrial mean pressure relative to any change in pulmonary artery diastolic pressure may be a strong haemo...

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.