Predictors of Recovery of Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction after Acute Myocardial Infarction: From the Korean Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry and Korean Myocardial Infarction Registry

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Background and Objectives: We investigated the predictors of the recovery of depressed left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in pa-tients with moderate or severe left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction after acute myocardial infarction (MI).
Subjects and Methods: We analyzed 1307 patients, who had moderately or severely depressed LVEF (<45%) on echocardiography soon after acute MI and who underwent a follow-up echocardiography, among 27369 patients from the Korea Working Group on the Myocar-dial Infarction Registry. Patients were categorized into two groups according to recovery of LVEF: group I with consistently depressed LVEF (<45%) at the follow-up echocardiography and group II with a recovery of LVEF (≥45%).
Results: Recovery of LV systolic dysfunction was observed in 51% of the subjects (group II, n=663; ΔLVEF, 16.2±9.3%), whereas there was no recovery in the remaining subjects (group I, n=644; ΔLVEF, 0.6±7.1%). In the multivariate analysis, independent predictors of recovery of depressed LVEF were as follows {odds ratio (OR) [95% confidence interval (CI)]}: moderate systolic dysfunction {LVEF ≥30% and <45%;1.73 (1.12-2.67)}, Killip class I-II {1.52 (1.06-2.18)}, no need for diuretics {1.59 (1.19-2.12)}, non-ST-segment elevation MI {1.55 (1.12-2.16)},lower peak troponin I level {<24 ng/mL, median value; 1.55 (1.16-2.07)}, single-vessel disease {1.53 (1.13-2.06)}, and non-left anterior descending (LAD) culprit lesion {1.50 (1.09-2.06)}. In addition, the use of statin was independently associated with a recovery of LV systolic dysfunction {OR (95% CI), 1.46 (1.07-2.00)}.
Conclusion: Future contractile recovery of LV systolic dysfunction following acute MI was significantly related with less severe heart failure at the time of presentation, a smaller extent of myonecrosis, or non-LAD culprit lesions rather than LAD lesions.

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