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  • Title: [Left ventricular microcatheterization during acute myocardial infarction (author's transl)].
    Author: Fumagalli C, Marchionni N, Vannucci A, Pini R, Bertini G.
    Journal: G Ital Cardiol; 1977; 7(4):360-8. PubMed ID: 863145.
    Abstract:
    Left ventricular microcatheterization at the bedside was accomplished in 20 acutely ill patients with myocardial infarction. Direct measure of the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure shows that its values can substantially differ from those of the pulmonary artery end-diastolic pressure. The authors observed that left ventricular microcatheterization is indicated, in the course of acute myocardial infarction, in the following circumstances: --when either the pulmonary artery end-diastolic or the pulmonary capillary pressure is beyond normal limits; --in the presence of tachyarrhythmias which, for alteration of the dynamics of atrial contraction, increase the difference between the left ventricular and pulmonary artery end-diastolic pressures; --when a mitralic defect is associated with the acute myocardial infarction.
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