Prognostic significance of left ventricular ejection fraction after acute myocardial infarction. A bedside radionuclide study.

M J Kelly, P L Thompson, M F Quinlan

The prognostic significance of left ventricular ejection fraction measurements obtained at the bedside was assessed in 171 patients as soon as possible after acute myocardial infarction. Ejection fraction was measured with a radionuclide first pass portable probe method within a mean of 24 hours of the onset of major symptoms. The results were related prospectively to the subsequent incidence of ventricular fibrillation in hospital, and to hospital and postdischarge deaths in a mean follow up period of 15 (range 9-21) months. All eight episodes of primary ventricular fibrillation, all 12 deaths due to pump failure in hospital, and also 12 out of 13 postdischarge deaths occurred in that minority of 81 patients whose initial postinfarction left ventricular ejection fraction was less than 0.35. Multivariate correlation with clinical, enzymatic, and electrocardiographic indicators of myocardial infarction showed that the prognostic significance of these indicators could largely be explained by their association with low left ventricular ejection fractions. Left ventricular ejection fraction measured within the initial 24 hours after acute myocardial infarction predicts prognosis throughout the subsequent year.

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