Korean Circ J.  1982 Dec;12(2):145-155. 10.4070/kcj.1982.12.2.145.

Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Anatomy and Function in Atherosclerotic Heart Disease

• Lee MS
• Choi BT
• Kim IS
• Kim J
• Park JR
• Suh CY

• KMID: 2040183
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1982.12.2.145

Abstract

Atherosclerotic heart disease is a major source of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in adult populations. To assess the prevalence of anatomical and functional abnormalities of the heart in such patients, we studied total 50 subjects with atherosclerotic heart disease by echocardiography and compared with 27 control subjects. We found significant change(p<0.05) of aortic root dimension, left ventricular mass, mitral valve E-F slope, E-point septal separation, and functional measurements show significant change in ejection fraction and fractional shortening of left ventricle. Characteristically, abnormal septal movement reveals in 70% of patients including paradoxical, flat & diminished, hyperactive motion, and among them paradoxical movement is the most frequent. Also left ventricular posterior wall movement is abnormal in 30% of the patient group. The prevalence of echocardiographic abnormalities is 80 percentile of total, which include 30 percentile subjects with only echocardiographic abnormalities without abnormality in 12-lead ECG, chest X-ray and laboratory findings. And these abnormalities can be detected well by echocardiography before they were otherwise apparent.

MeSH Terms

Adult
Echocardiography*
Electrocardiography
Heart Diseases*
Heart Ventricles
Heart*
Humans
Mitral Valve
Mortality
Prevalence
Thorax