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Sensitivity of One- and Two-Dimensional Echocardiography in Detecting Infarcted Scar Tissue

1982; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-94-009-7603-0_11

2542-8373

K. v. Olshausen, H. C. Mehmel, W. Kübler,

Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments

The healing process of an acute myocardial infarction involves the deposition of collagen and the formation of scar tissue which alter the acoustic properties and the wall thickness of the affected ventricular wall segment. Although M-mode echocardiography is limited in scanning the left ventricular cavitiy, several studies claimed a high degree of success in detecting infarcted scar tissue (2, 8). 2D-echocardiography has been shown to be superior to M-mode in analyzing left ventricular wall motion abnormalities (4, 5). This study was underteken to compare the sensitivity of one- and two-dimensional echocardiography for scar tissue in patients after myocardial infarction.