Abstract:Objective To investigate the predictive value of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT-3DE) parameters for the outcome of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) complicated with left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).Methods Eighty patients with AMI complicated with LVA who underwent emergency PCI in our hospital from January 2018 to January 2020 were collected. According to the pathoanatomical classification of LVA, these patients were divided into group A (AMI with functional LVA, n = 31), group B (AMI with anatomical LVA, n = 28) and group C (AMI with thrombosed LVA, n = 21). The left ventricular function parameters, including left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left ventricular end-diastolic volume (LVEDV), left ventricular end-systolic volume (LVESV), cardiac output (CO), and spherical index (SPI), were measured via RT-3DE before and 2 months after the operation. Besides, left ventricular end-diastolic volume index (LVEDVI), left ventricular end-systolic volume index (LVESVI) and cardiac index (CI) were calculated according to the body surface area (BSA). The changes of these parameters before and 2 months after surgery in the three groups were compared, and the relationship between LVEF and SPI and other cardiac function parameters before and 2 months after the operation was analyzed.Results The decreases of LVEDV, LVESV, LVEDVI and LVESVI before and after the operation in group C were smaller than those in group A and B (P < 0.05). Compared with the group C, the increases of CO and CI before and after the operation were greater than those in group A but smaller than those in group B (P < 0.05). In group B, the decrease of LVEDV before and after the operation was smaller (P < 0.05), the increases of CO and CI were greater (P < 0.05), and the decrease of LVESVI was greater compared with group A (P < 0.05). As for group C, the increases of CO and CI before and after the operation were greater relative to those in group A yet smaller relative to those in group B (P < 0.05). In group B, the decrease of LVEDV before and after the operation was smaller (P < 0.05), the increases of CO and CI were greater (P < 0.05), and the decrease of LVESVI was greater compared with group A (P < 0.05). The increase of LVEF before and after the operation in the group C were smaller than that in the group A and B (P < 0.05), while the decrease of SPI before and after the operation in the group C was smaller than that in the group A (P < 0.05). In addition, the decrease of SPI before and after the operation in the group B was smaller than that in the group A (P < 0.05). Preoperative LVEF was negatively correlated with LVEDV, LVESV, CO, LVEDVI, LVESVI and CI in AMI patients with LVA (r = -0.614, -0.736, -0.364, -0.614, -0.739 and -0.348, all P <0.05). Postoperative LVEF was also negatively correlated with LVEDV, LVESV, CO, LVEDVI, LVESVI and CI (r = -0.605, -0.720, -0.335, -0.594, -0.725 and -0.320, all P <0.05). Neither preoperative SPI nor postoperative SPI was correlated with LVEDV, LVESV, CO, LVEDVI, LVESVI and CI (P > 0.05).Conclusions Two months after emergency PCI, the ventricular morphology and overall systolic function of AMI patients complicated with functional and anatomical LVA are significantly improved and the operation is effective, indicating that RT-3DE can evaluate the short-term efficacy of emergency PCI.