[Functional state of the left ventricle in patients who have had a myocardial infarct according to ultrasonic scanning data].

In most patients who had suffered from myocardial infarction 3 1/2 to 12 months (7.6 months on the average) previously and had no clinical symptoms of circulatory insufficiency, ultrasonic scanning of the heart showed normal stroke volume and stroke index, and normal minute volume and cardiac index against the background of low indices of left ventricular contractility function (ejection fraction, % delta S, VcF) and large end-diastolic and end-systolic left ventricular volumes. Normal stroke ejection was achieved due to an increase of the end-diastolic volume, the decrease in the contractility of the left ventricular was thus compensated for with the participation of the Frank-Starling mechanism.