Alteration in energetics in patients with left ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction: increased oxygen cost of contractility

Circulation
Y HayashiM Yokoyama

Abstract

Although the use of inotropic agents to treat congestive heart failure (CHF) in patients with coronary artery disease has yielded short-term hemodynamic improvement, long-term mortality has shown less improvement. The loss of cardiac muscle as a result of infarction not only decreases the pumping ability of the heart but also leads to some dramatic changes in myocardial energetics. However, little is known about the mechanoenergetics of the heart in patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction after myocardial infarction. The present study was designed to compare by means of the Vo2-pressure-volume area relation (PVA, a measure of total mechanical energy) and Emax (LV contractility index), the incremental oxygen cost of contractility measured as nonmechanical energy per unit increment in contractility in patients with various kinds of LV dysfunction. We assessed Emax, Vo2, and PVA using conductance and Webster catheters under control conditions and during different rates of dobutamine infusion (3 and 6 micrograms x kg-1 x min-1) in 30 patients with coronary artery disease. Patients were divided into three groups according to LV ejection fraction (EF): 10 without LV dysfunction (EF>/= 60%), 10 with mild LV dysfunction (40% </...Continue Reading

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