Clinic features and echocardiographic evaluation of patients with idopathic submitral left ventricular aneurysm / 中华超声影像学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study cinical features of patients with idopathic submitral left ventricular aneurysm(ISLVA) and evaluate their global and segmental systolic function as well as diastolic function through echocardiography.Methods Clinical features of eight patients with ISLVA were analysed retrospectively.Standard 2-dimentional and real-time 3-dimentional echocardiography were performed in all the eight cases and other twenty subjects with normal left ventricular(LV) function (defined as control group).Results Two patients were diagnosed as ISLVA due to ventricular arrythmia and the other six case sowing to congestive heart failure.Coronary angiography was normal in all patients.Apical systolic murmur was audible in 6 cases.Four patients received mitral valve surgical repair,one underwent aneurysm resection and radiofrequency ablation,implantable cardioverter defibrillator was implanted in one case,one was only treated by medication.One case died.Patients with ISLVA demonstrated significanly larger left atrium(LA) and LV diameter (both end-diastolic and end systolic),thinner LV posterior wall,and lower LV ejection fraction (LVEF) than controls (P ＜0.05).Indexes of the LV 17 segments time-volume curves including the time to minimal systolic volume(Tmsv) 16-SD,Tmsv 12 SD,Tmsv 6-SD,Tmsv 16-Dif,Tmsv 12-Dif,Tmsv 6-Dif,Tmsv 16-SD％,Tmsv 12-SD％,Tmsv 6-SD％,Tmsv 16-Dif％,Tmsv 12-Dif％,Tmsv 6-Dif％ were significantly higher in patients with ISLVA than those in controls(all P ＜0.05).All patients with ISLVA showed mitral regurgitation and decreased LV diastolic function in varying degrees,five patients accompanied by elevated LA pressure.Conclusions Clinical features of patients with ISLVA are nonspecific.Echocardiography can evaluate systematically their functional and structural abnormalities.