Effect of Captopril on Progressive Ventricular Dilatation after Anterior Myocardial Infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 80-86

  Pfeffer, Marc A ^a   Lamas, Gervasio A ^a   Vaughan, Douglas E ^a   Parisi, Alfred F ^b   Braunwald, Eugene ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL;

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE DILATATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0023879732     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198807143190204     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Hammermeister KE, DeRouen TA, Dodge HT. Variables predictive of survival in patients with coronary disease: selection by univariate and multivariate analyses from the clinical, electrocardiographic, exercise, arteriographic, and quantitative angiographic evaluations. Circulation 1979; 59: 421–30.
2. Norris RM, Barnaby PF, Brandt PWT, et al. Prognosis after recovery from first acute myocardial infarction: determinants of reinfarction and sudden death. Am J Cardiol 1984; 53: 408–13.
3. White HD, Norris RM, Brown MA, Brandt PWT, Whitlock RML, Wild CJ. Left ventricular end-systolic volume as the major determinant of survival after recovery from myocardial infarction. Circulation 1987; 76: 44–51.
4. Hutchins GM, Bulkley BH. Infarct expansion versus extension: two different complications of acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 1978; 41: 1127–32.
5. Eaton LW, Weiss JL, Bulkley BH, Garrison JB, Weisfeldt ML. Regional cardiac dilatation after acute myocardial infarction: recognition by two-dimensional echocardiography. N Engl J Med 1979; 300: 57–62.
6. Erlebacher JA, Weiss JL, Eaton LW, Kallman C, Weisfeldt ML, Bulkley BH. Late effects of acute infarct dilation on heart size: a two dimensional echocardiographic study. Am J Cardiol 1982; 49: 1120–6.
7. McKay RG, Pfeffer MA, Pasternak RC, et al. Left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction: a corollary to infarct expansion. Circulation 1986; 74: 693–702.
8. Kitamura A, Kay JH, Krohn BG, Magidson O, Dunne EF. Geometric and functional abnormalities of the left ventricle with a chronic localized noncontractile area. Am J Cardiol 1973; 31: 701–7.
9. Lamas GA, Pfeffer MA. Increased left ventricular volume following myocardial infarction in man. Am Heart J 1986; 111: 30–5.
10. Fletcher PJ, Pfeffer JM, Pfeffer MA, Braunwald E. Left ventricular diastolic pressure-volume relations in rats with healed myocardial infarction: effects on systolic function. Circ Res 1981; 49: 618–26.
11. Pfeffer JM, Pfeffer MA, Braunwald E. Influence of chronic captopril therapy on the infarcted left ventricle of the rat. Circ Res 1985; 57: 84–95.
12. Pfeffer MA, Pfeffer JM. Ventricular enlargement and reduced survival after myocardial infarction. Circulation 1987; 75: Suppl IV: IV-93-IV-97.
13. Weisman HF, Bush DE, Mannisi JA, Bulkley BH. Global cardiac remodeling after acute myocardial infarction: a study in the rat model. J Am Coll Cardiol 1985; 5: 1355–62.
14. Pfeffer MA, Pfeffer JM, Steinberg C, Finn P. Survival after an experimental myocardial infarction: beneficial effects of long-term therapy with captopril. Circulation 1985; 72: 406–12.
15. Wynne J, Green LH, Mann T, Levin D, Grossman W. Estimation of left ventricular volumes in man from biplane cineangiograms filmed in oblique projections. Am J Cardiol 1978; 41: 726–32.
16. Herman MV, Gorlin R. Implications of left ventricular asynergy. Am J Cardiol 1969; 23: 538–47.
17. Meizlish JL, Berger HJ, Plankey M, Errico D, Levy W, Zaret BL. Functional left ventricular aneurysm formation after acute anterior transmural myocardial infarction: incidence, natural history, and prognostic implications. N Engl J Med 1984; 311: 1001–6.
18. Anversa P, Loud AV, Levicky V, Guideri G. Left ventricular failure induced by myocardial infarction. I. Myocyte hypertrophy. Am J Physiol 1985; 248: H876–H882.
19. Gaudron PJ, Eilles C, Ertl G. Subacute adaptation to loss of contractile myocardium by left ventricular dilatation (remodeling) in patients with myocardial infarction. Circulation 1987; 76: Suppl IV: IV-402. abstract.
20. Jeremy RW, Hackworthy RA, Bautovich G, Hutton BF, Harris PJ. Infarct artery perfusion and changes in left ventricular volume in the month after acute myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 1987; 9: 989–95.
21. Pfeffer JM, Pfeffer MA. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition and ventricular remodeling in heart failure. Am J Med 1988; 84: Suppl 3A: 37–44.
22. Captopril Multicenter Research Group. A placebo-controlled trial of captopril in refractory chronic congestive heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol 1983; 2: 755–63.
23. The Captopril-Digoxin Multicenter Research Group. Comparative effects of therapy with captopril and digoxin in patients with mild to moderate heart failure. JAMA 1988; 259: 539–44.
24. Bruce RA. Exercise testing for evaluation of ventricular function. N Engl J Med 1977; 296: 671–5.
25. Franciosa JA. Exercise testing in chronic congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol 1984; 53: 1447–50.
26. Anversa P, Beghi C, Kikkawa Y, Olivetti G. Myocardial infarction in rats: infarct size, myocyte hypertrophy, and capillary growth. Circ Res 1986; 58: 26–37.
27. Kannel WB, Sorlie P, McNamara PM. Prognosis after initial myocardial infarction: the Framingham Study. Am J Cardiol 1979; 44: 53–9.