J Salas, J A Nuño de la Rosa, J Martínez, J Contreras, F Picó, J V Campos, J A Ruiz, J A Ruipérez
OBJECTIVES: To follow the left ventricular systolic function changes as assessed by global and regional ejection fraction during the first year of evolution after anterior myocardial infarction, as well as to analyse how the most relevant clinical and angio-graphic parameters influence them. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Sixty-six consecutive patients with a first infarction of anterior location, completed 1 year of follow-up with radionuclide ventriculography, T1-SPECT after exercise or dypiridamole and cardiac catheterization before discharge; radionuclide ventriculography was repeated 6 and 12 months later...
August 1996: Revista Española de Cardiología