Relative Prognostic Value of Clinical Heart Failure and Early Echocardiographic Parameters in Acute Myocardial Infarction

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The relative prognostic value of clinical heart failure and early M-mode and 2-dimensional echocardiographic indexes of left ventricular performance was compared in a study of 205 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Statistical analysis showed that an early wall motion score was a stronger predictor of 1 -year mortality than the occurrence of clinical heart failure early, late or at any time during the hospital course of AMI. The finding of clinical heart failure had an independent prognostic value of intermediate strength. M-mode echocardiographic parameters only had a weak independent prognostic value, possibly related to their content of information on left ventricular end-systolic dimension.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1991

Publication date (Print): 1991

Publication date (Electronic): 12 November 2008

Volume: 79

Issue: 1

Pages: 64-72

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Medical Department C, Cardiac Division, CCU C ₄₀, Glostrup Hospital, and Medical Department B, Rigshospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Publisher ID: 174861 Other ID: Cardiology 1991;79:64–72

DOI: 10.1159/000174861

PubMed ID: 1777915

SO-VID: b1f088d1-2db8-44df-a87b-8e9f5223374f

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Date received : 08 January 1991

Date accepted : 24 January 1991

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Pages: 9

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