BACKGROUND Post-myocardial infarction global ejection fraction and infarct-related artery patency might be expected to be associated with health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) outcomes, but this association has not been previously shown. The GUSTO-I Angiographic Study cohort 2-year follow-up afforded an examination of such potential relationships. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 1848 patients...

Methods Twenty-four patients with severe LV dysfunction {ejection fraction (EF) <35% on echocardiography} underwent before and more than 6 months after surgical revascularization. The following variables were measured: LV volumes, EF, mass, absolute and relative infarction size, transmural extent of infarction, and wall thickness. All patients were classified into two groups: group I, presence ...

A 67-year old Caucasian female was diagnosed with anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) after she developed the triad of high fevers, maculo-papular rash and internal organ involvement ten weeks after the institution of prophylactic phenytoin for resection of a meningioma. She developed congestive heart failure, with a substantial reduction in ejection fraction (EF) by an echocardiogra...

Twenty-four patients with aortic valve disease were studied before and 19+/-12 months following valve replacement with a well functioning prosthesis. Biplane left ventricular angiography and pressures were utilized to determine end-diastolic volume/m2 (EDV), end-systolic volume/m2 (ESV), ejection fraction (EF), left ventricular mass/m2 (LVM) and stroke work (SW). There were nine patients with a...

Objectives. Assessment of left ventricular (LV) systolic function in patients with atrial fibrillation can be difficult. Acoustic cardiography provides several parameters for quantifying LV systolic function. We evaluated the ability of acoustic cardiography to detect LV systolic dysfunction in patients with and without atrial fibrillation. Design. We studied 194 patients who underwent acoustic...

The present study aims to evaluate LV (left ventricular) mechanical dyssynchrony in CAD (coronary artery disease) with preserved and depressed EF (ejection fraction). Echocardiography with TDI (tissue Doppler imaging) was performed in 311 consecutive CAD patients (94 had preserved EF > or =50% and 217 had depressed EF <50%) and 117 healthy subjects to determine LV systolic and diastolic dyssync...

A fully automated procedure for the computation of left-ventricular ejection fraction (EF) from cardiac-gated Tc-99m blood-pool (GBP) scintigrams with fixed, dual, and variable ROI methods is described. By comparison with EF data from contrast ventriculography in 68 patients, the dual-ROI method (separate end-diastolic and end-systolic contours) was found to be the method of choice; processing ...

Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of gender on the prediction of limited exercise capacity in heart failure (HF) patients assessed by 6 minute walk test (6-MWT). Methods In 147 HF patients (mean age 61 ± 11 years, 50.3% male), a 6-MWT and a Doppler echocardiographic study were performed in the same day. Conventional cardiac measurements were obtained and global LV dyssyn...