Autori: Popescu BA, Macor F, Antonini-Canterin F, Giannuzzi P, Temporelli PL, Bosimini E, Gentile F, Maggioni AP, Tavazzi L, Piazza R, Ascione L, Stoian I, Cervesato E, Nicolosi GL

Editorial: The American Journal of Cardiology, 93, p.1156-1159, 2004.

Rezumat:

To evaluate the existence, timing, and determinants
of post-infarction left atrial remodeling, we studied a
subgroup of 514 patients from the Third Gruppo
Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell’Infarto
Miocardico Echo Substudy who underwent 4 serial
2-dimensional echocardiograms up to 6 months after
acute myocardial infarction. This study is the first to
demonstrate, in a large series of patients, the existence
of early and late left atrial remodeling after
low-risk acute myocardial infarction and the relation
of left atrial remodeling to left ventricular
remodeling.

Cuvinte cheie: left atrium remodeling, myocardial infarction, echocardiography, follow-up studies