Echocardiographic risk factors of left ventricular thrombus in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to identify echocardiographic determinants of left ventricular thrombus (LVT) formation after acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI).

Methods and results

This case-control study comprised 55 acute anterior MI patients with LVT as cases and 55 acute anterior MI patients without LVT as controls, who were selected from a cohort of consecutive patients with ischemic heart failure in our hospital. The cases and controls were matched for age, sex, and left ventricular ejection fraction. LVT was detected by routine/contrast echocardiography or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging during the first 3 months following MI. Formation of apical aneurysm after MI was independently associated with LVT formation [72.0% vs. 43.5%, odds ratio (OR) = 5.06, 95% confidence

SUBMITTER: Chen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8712797 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature