Inferior Myocardial Infarction as a Cause of Asymmetric Septal Hypertrophy An Echocardiographic Study
HENNING, MD ROBERT A. O’ROURKE, MD, FACC MICHAEL H. CRAWFORD, MD ALBERT0 RIGHETTI, MD JOEL S. KARLINER, MD, FACC HARTMUT
San Diego, California
From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California. This work was supported by Specialized Center of Research on lschemic Heart Disease NIH Research Grant HL 17662 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Manuscript received July 20. 1977; revised manuscript received October 25, 1977, accepted October 26, 1977. Address for reprints: Joel S. Karliner, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, 225 W. Dickinson Street, San Diego, California 92103.
The diastolic thickness of the septum and posterfor left ventricular wail were measured with M mode echocardiography in 66 patients 2 or more months afler a single transmurai myocardiai infarction. in 42 patients with inferior wail infarction, the septai thickness of 12.4 f 0.6 mm (mean f standard error of the mean) was larger than the mean measurement in 26 patients with anterior wail infarction (9.6 f 0.6 mm, P
HENNING, MD ROBERT A. O’ROURKE, MD, FACC MICHAEL H. CRAWFORD, MD ALBERT0 RIGHETTI, MD JOEL S. KARLINER, MD, FACC HARTMUT
San Diego, California
From the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California. This work was supported by Specialized Center of Research on lschemic Heart Disease NIH Research Grant HL 17662 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Manuscript received July 20. 1977; revised manuscript received October 25, 1977, accepted October 26, 1977. Address for reprints: Joel S. Karliner, MD, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, 225 W. Dickinson Street, San Diego, California 92103.
The diastolic thickness of the septum and posterfor left ventricular wail were measured with M mode echocardiography in 66 patients 2 or more months afler a single transmurai myocardiai infarction. in 42 patients with inferior wail infarction, the septai thickness of 12.4 f 0.6 mm (mean f standard error of the mean) was larger than the mean measurement in 26 patients with anterior wail infarction (9.6 f 0.6 mm, P
