Left ventricular geometry in normal and post-anterior myocardial infarction patients: sphericity index and ‘new’ conicity index comparisons☆ | Zendy

Marisa Di Donato | Zendy; P Dabic | Zendy; Serenella Castelvecchio | Zendy; Carlo Santambrogio | Zendy; Jelena Branković | Zendy; L Collarini | Zendy; Tammam Joussef | Zendy; Alessandro Frigiola | Zendy; Gerald D. Buckberg | Zendy; Lorenzo Menicanti | Zendy

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Left ventricular geometry in normal and post-anterior myocardial infarction patients: sphericity index and ‘new’ conicity index comparisons☆

Author(s) -

Marisa Di Donato,

P Dabic,

Serenella Castelvecchio,

Carlo Santambrogio,

Jelena Branković,

L Collarini,

Tammam Joussef,

Alessandro Frigiola,

Gerald D. Buckberg,

Lorenzo Menicanti

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.03.002

Subject(s) - sphericity , index (typography) , cardiology , medicine , mathematics , myocardial infarction , geometry , computer science , world wide web

Anterior myocardial infarction leads a sequence of structural changes that alter the size and the shape of the left ventricle. Efforts to assess shape have been made by global left ventricular (LV) chamber analysis (sphericity index, SI) but this analysis does not detect regional shape abnormalities like those at the apical level, which precede global ventricular dilatation.

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