Left atrial transport function in myocardial infarction. Importance of its booster pump function

The American Journal of Medicine
S H RahimtoolaR M Gunnar

Abstract

After myocardial infarction (MI), left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic pressure (EDP) is higher than mean pulmonary artery wedge pressure because of powerful atrial contraction. To evaluate the significane of atrial contraction to left ventricular function we studied 10 control (C) patients without cardiac disease and 17 patients from three to six weeks after acute myocardial infarction. Cardiac catheterization with simultaneous left ventricular diastolic pressure (DP) and left ventricular cineangiograms were obtained. Left ventricular volumes and pressure were (mean +/- SD): (SEE ARTICLE). Although left ventricular stroke volume was lower in the patients with myocardial infarction than in the control subjects (46 versus 56 ml/m2), atrial contraction contributed more to left ventricular filling during diastole (which is the same as left ventricular stroke volume) in the patients with myocardial infarction than in the controls (16 versus 10 ml/m2). The average atrial contribution to left ventricular end-diastolic volume was 11.9 per cent (C), 15.4 per cent (MI); to left ventricular end-diastolic pressure 20 per cent (C), 38.7 per cent (MI); and to left ventricular stroke volume 21.7 per cent (C), 35.1 per cent (MI). Atrial contri...Continue Reading

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