Heart Attack
Data from Yonsei University Advance Knowledge in Heart Attack
Published in Blood Weekly, June 2nd, 2011
2011 JUN 2 -- In this recently published article, scientists in Seoul, South Korea conducted a study "To delineate the mechanism of mitral regurgitation (MR) in the acute phase of inferior wall myocardial infarction (MI). In 97 patients (age 59 +/- 12 years) with acute inferior wall MI, the severity of MR, left ventricular (LV) geometric changes and function within 1.7 +/- 1.3 days after MI by echocardiography was retrospectively evaluated."
"Infarct size was measured within 3.9 +/- 1.7 days by cardiac magnetic resonance. Mild MR was present in 16 (16.5%) and moderate MR in 12 (12.4%) of 97 patients. There were no significant differences in mitral annular...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2011-06-02)
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