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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1981-3-27
pubmed:abstractText
One hundred and three subjects with ischemic heart disease (IHD) were followed-up in an attempt to assess the most important factors affecting morbidity and mortality. At the time of initial examination 23 patients had congestive heart failure. During the one year follow-up after the examination 11 patients died. Various parameters including perfusion defects (SCORE) on 201 Tl-myocardial scintigrams, radiocardiographic hemodynamic data and orthogonal electrocardiographic parameters were analysed at the onset of the study, according to the method of "factor analysis". The factor analytic technique enabled a summary of the data obtained from these non-invasive approaches into five major interpretable components termed factors 1 to 5; factor 1 as "the extent of myocardial ischemia", factor 2 "heart size", factor 3 "cardiac pump function", factor 4 "peripheral blood volume" and factor 5 "QRS forces". The relationship between these five factors with a one-year mortality rate was then investigated. Of these factors, factor 1 which included SCORE, spatial G/QRS, T/QRS and QRS-T angle proved to be the most important as related to morbidity and mortality in IHD. Factors 2 and 3 were also shown to be useful prognostic indicators of subsequent mortality. Thus, a combination of these non-invasive parameters is useful not only to diagnose IHD but also serves as one form of evaluation of the prognosis in patients with IHD.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0047-1828
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
24-38
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1981
pubmed:articleTitle
A factor analytic assessment of prognosis in ischemic heart disease using thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy, radiocardiograhy and orthogonal electrocardiography.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article