NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 22 –
Analysis of data from the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) trial shows that right ventricular function is an independent predictor of death and heart failure among patients with left ventricular dysfunction after a myocardial infarction (MI).
“We hypothesized that [MI] patients with right ventricular dysfunction would be at greater risk for the development of heart failure and for death,” Dr. Scott D. Solomon, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, told Reuters Health. Dr. Solomon and colleagues defined normal right ventricular function by measuring right ventricular fractional area change from an
apical four-chamber view in a series of normal patients.
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