Intraventricular pressure gradient: A novel tool to assess the post-infarction chronic congestive heart failure.

ABSTRACT: Congestive heart failure (CHF), the leading cause of death, is deemed a grave sequel of myocardial infarction (MI). The employment of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), as a primary indication of CHF, becomes restricted owing to the potential impairment of heart function and caused injury to the aortic valve during its measurement. Echocardiography is the standard technique to detect cardiac dysfunction. However, it exhibits a low capacity to predict the progression of CHF post chronic MI. Being extremely sensitive, noninvasive, and preload-independent, intraventricular pressure gradient (IVPG) was lately introduced to evaluate cardiac function, specifically during cardiomyopathy. Yet, the utility of its use to assess the CHF progression after chronic MI was not investigated.

SUBMITTER: El-Husseiny HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9425054 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature