TY - JOUR
T1 - Usefulness of echocardiographic left ventricular ejection fraction and silent myocardial ischemia in predicting new coronary events in elderly patients with coronary artery disease or systemic hypertension
AU - Aronow, Wilbert S.
AU - Epstein, Stanley
AU - Koenigsberg, Mordecai
PY - 1990/3/15
Y1 - 1990/3/15
N2 - Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) remains normal in elderly persons with no evidence of heart disease.1,2 We reported that an abnormal echocardiographic LVEF3 and silent myocardial ischemia4 significantly correlated with new coronary events in elderly patients with heart disease. In this report we give the results from our prospective study of 393 patients > 62 years old with coronary artery disease (CAD) or systemic hypertension correlating LVEF and silent ischemia with development of new cardiac events at 40-month mean follow-up.
AB - Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) remains normal in elderly persons with no evidence of heart disease.1,2 We reported that an abnormal echocardiographic LVEF3 and silent myocardial ischemia4 significantly correlated with new coronary events in elderly patients with heart disease. In this report we give the results from our prospective study of 393 patients > 62 years old with coronary artery disease (CAD) or systemic hypertension correlating LVEF and silent ischemia with development of new cardiac events at 40-month mean follow-up.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9149(90)91395-M
DO - 10.1016/0002-9149(90)91395-M
M3 - Article
C2 - 2316467
AN - SCOPUS:0025322320
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 65
SP - 811
EP - 812
JO - The American Journal of Cardiology
JF - The American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 11
ER -