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Time course and determinants of left ventricular function recovery after primary angioplasty in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Imad Sheiban, MD^*, Gabriele Fragasso, MD, Giuseppe M. C. Rosano, MD, Aniruddha Dharmadhikari, MD, Vaios Tzifos, MD, Paolo Pagnotta, MD, Sergio L. Chierchia, MD, FESC, FACC and Gianpaolo Trevi, MD^*

^* Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Department of Cardiology, Istituto Scientifico/Università San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
Cardiovascular Research Unit, San Raffaele–Roma, Tosinvest Sanita’, Roma, Italy

View larger version (42K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Peak and time to peak creatine kinase (CK) and CK-MB levels in the three study groups after reperfusion. p < 0.001.

View larger version (47K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Changes in left ventricular diastolic and systolic volumes in all study groups during the follow-up period.

View larger version (25K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 Changes in left ventricular ejection fraction in all study groups during the follow-up period.

View larger version (40K): [in a new window]   Figure 4 Changes in wall motion score index in all study groups during the follow-up period. p < 0.01; p < 0.001.