The case for echocardiography in acute myocardial infarction
1Department of Medicine, Brockton/West Roxbury Veterans Administration Medical Center, MA 02132.
Abstract:
Acute myocardial infarction occurs after a period of profound myocardial ischemia. Ischemia of this degree immediately produces a regional contraction abnormality, which is readily detectable by echocardiography before the onset of necrosis. Echocardiography has been used both experimentally and clinically as a guide to the functional extent of myocardial involvement in evolving infarction and hence provides an objective anatomic basis for electing therapeutic interventions and assessing a prognosis.
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