[Role of mitral valve dysfunction in the development of cardiac insufficiency in postinfarct cardiosclerosis]

The clinical suggestion on the dysfunction of the mitral valve in 20 patients with post-infarction cardiosclerosis was confirmed by ventriculography (8 persons) and in autopsy (12 persons). The paper presents a clinical characteristics of the both groups of patients, the indices of the central hemodynamics, the end diastolic pressure in the left ventricle of the heart, coronaroangiography, as well as morphometric data of the examination of the hearts and of the extent of the scar lesions of the myocardium in patients who died of congestive cardiac insufficiency against the background of postinfarction cardiosclerosis combined with the papillary muscle affection.