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Effect of acute myocardial infarction on the angle between the mitral and aortic valve plane
K E Harmon1, F H Sheehan, H Hosokawa
1Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-6422, USA.
The American Journal of Cardiology
|September 25, 1999
Abstract:
The present study shows that acute myocardial infarction affects the left ventricle at the base as well as in the infarct region by widening of the angle between the mitral and aortic valve planes. The valve plane angle did not change over time despite significant recovery of left ventricular function, suggesting that acute myocardial infarction causes irreversible structural changes in the left ventricular myocardium remote from the infarct region.