• Am. J. Med. Sci. · Dec 2011

    Right ventricular function in patients with different infarction sites after a first acute myocardial infarction.

    • Shun-Yi Hsu, Jeng-Feng Lin, and Shan-Hung Chang.
    • Division of Cardiology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taiwan. shunyi57@tzuchi.com.tw
    • Am. J. Med. Sci. 2011 Dec 1; 342 (6): 474-9.

    IntroductionTo investigate the effect of different infarction sites on right ventricular (RV) functional changes in patients with a first acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction without concomitant RV infarction.MethodsSixty consecutive patients underwent conventional echocardiography and pulsed-wave tissue Doppler imaging for RV function evaluation after successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention. They were divided into 2 groups according to infarct location based on the electrocardiographic findings: group I consisted of 35 patients with anterior (including anteroseptal) wall infarction and group II included 25 patients with inferior (including inferoposterior) wall infarction. Ten healthy individuals served as the control group.ResultsThe tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion was significantly lower in group I compared with that in the controls (20.3 ± 3.8 versus 23.9 ± 2.4 mm, P < 0.05). The ratio of transtricuspid peak early filling velocity to tricuspid annular early diastolic velocity (E/E(m)) was comparable between group I and group II, whereas it was higher in group II than in the controls (6.10 ± 1.37 versus 4.33 ± 1.17, P < 0.05). The RV myocardial performance index determined by tissue Doppler imaging was significantly higher in group I than in group II (0.48 ± 0.25 versus 0.32 ± 0.10, P < 0.05) and the healthy controls (0.48 ± 0.25 versus 0.27 ± 0.08, P < 0.05).ConclusionsIn patients with a first, acute reperfused ST-elevation myocardial infarction without associated RV infarction, RV function may be affected discrepantly depending on the different infarction sites. In patients with inferior infarction without concomitant RV infarction, only regional RV diastolic dysfunction is observed, whereas the alteration of global RV function is more pronounced in patients with anterior wall infarction.

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