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E Esplugas

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PubMed1980

[Left ventricular aneurysm. Correlations with coronary arteriography (author's transl)].

Ventricular aneurysm is the most severe segmental disorder of ventricular function. A group of 45 patients with ventricular aneurysms have been evaluated, correlating a total of 80 aneurysmatic segments with cineventriculographic findings. Seventy-one percent of the patients had multiple lesions. Except for three patients with normal coronary blood supply and apical aneurysm there was a positive correlation between the remaining aneurysmatic segments and significant lesions in the corresponding arteries. As in the three cases with normal coronary arteries, associated spasm was suspected in other eight cases showing significant vessel stenosis of less than 75 percent of the lumen. Detection of ventricular aneurysm in the cineventriculographic examination is highly suggestive of severe arterial damage.

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PubMed1980

[Distribution of significant coronary lesions in patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease. Study of 300 consecutive cases (author's transl)].

Associated coronary atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease is an important finding under prognostic and therapeutic viewpoints. Selective coronary angiography was carried out in 300 patients with rheumatic valvular disease (157 cases with associated mitral and aortic lesions; 57 cases with aortic regkurgitation; 35 cases with aortic stenosis; 31 cases with mitral stenosis, and 20 cases with mitral regurgitation). Significant coronary atherosclerosis occurs in 11 percent of all patients. The distribution of the lesions was as follows: anterior descending artery (56 percent); right coronary artery (47 percent); circumflex artery (28 percent); marginal artery (22 percent); oblique branches (19 percent), and common left trunk (3 percent). Lesions in the common left trunk were only present in association with aortic regurgitation. Fourty-four percent of patients with significant atherosclerosis showed multiple lesions, and there was a distal coronary tree appropriated to coronary bypass in 78 percent of the cases. The distribution of significant coronary lesions in patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease is similar to that observed in patients with ischemic heart disease. The frequent finding, however, of a short common left trunk and/or a left coronary prevalence in patients with aortic lesions is stressed under diagnostic and therapeutic viewpoints.

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PubMed1980

[Angiographic mitral regurgitation in patients with chronic ischemic cardiopathy. Coronarioangiographic and ventriculographic correlations (author's transl)].

Mitral regurgitation in patients with chronic ischemic cardiopathy may occur following dysfunction of the papillary muscles and left ventricular impairment. A total of 291 patients with significant coronary lesions and absence of associated cardiopathies are reviewed. Patients were divided into three groups: Group A, formed by 241 cases without mitral regurgitation; group B, including 42 patients with slight mitral regurgitation, and group C, formed by eight patients with moderate or severe mitral regurgitation. Significant differences between groups A and B in relation to the number of affected coronary arteries, inferior or anterolateral akinesia-dyskinesia, and left ventricular enlargement were observed. There were no significant differences between groups B and C, though all patients of the last group had two or three affected coronary arteries. Angiographic mitral regurgitation following chronic ischemic cardiopathy is uncommon, especially moderate or severe degrees of regurgitation. Mitral regurgitation is related to the number of affected coronary arteries, presence of inferior or anterolateral akinesia-dyskinesia, and enlargement of the left ventricle. Clinical signs of significant mitral regurgitation may suggest the existence of coronary lesions, at least in two vessels.

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PubMed1980

[Left ventricular function and state of the coronary tree in patients with significant coronary lesions (author's transl)].

The prognosis of patients with ischemic cardiopathy is mainly based upon the number of affected vesssels, the state of the distal coronary tree, and the left ventricular function. Coronary arteriographies and ventriculographies corresponding to 274 consecutive patients (January, 1975-October, 1978) with significant coronary lesions are reviewed. A singles vessel obstruction was registered in 36.5 percent of the patients; obstruction of two vessels was present in 28.5 percent, and of three vessels in 29.9 percent. The common left trunk was obstructed in 5.1 percent of the cases. The anterior descending coronary artery was affected in 78 percent of the patients, and the left coronary artery, circumflex, first marginal branch, and first diagonal branch showed narrowing in 62, 34, 36, and 26 percent, respectively. The distal tree of the above mentioned arteries was appropriate for coronary bypass operations in 51, 49, 50, 38, and 10 percent of the arteries, respectively. On the basis of coronary angiographic and ventriculographic criteria 117 patients (43 percent) were not candidates to coronary bypass surgery. The ejection fraction was less than 0.40 in 22 percent of the cases, and below to 0.30 in 12 percent (34 patients). The outstanding finding in the present series was the impairment of the distal coronary tree due to advanced atherosclerosis.

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PubMed1979

Post-traumatic coronary occlusion and early left ventricular aneurysm.

A case of post-traumatic coronary occlusion is presented. A 38-year-old sustained a blunt chest trauma with secondary transmural infarct and early evolution toward a huge left ventricular aneurysm. Coronary arteriography showed complete occlusion to the left anterior descending coronary artery.

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