| Summary: | This program demonstrates how to use echo optimally for patients presenting with myocardial infarction. It reviews coronary artery anatomy; discusses the prognosis of myocardial infarction; looks at such potential complications as aneurysm, mitral regurgitation, and papillary muscle rupture; and distinguishes between a true aneurysm and a pseudoaneurysm. The program also features case studies and accompanying echo-contrast images for a 66-year-old woman with emboli in her legs, an 80-year-old man with a history of myocardial infarction, a 57-year-old man with a massive myocardial infarction, a 49-year-old woman with a history of lupus and recent stroke, a 77-year-old man with a pseudoaneurysm, a 75-year-old woman with myocardial infarction and dyspnea, a 65-year-old man with lateral myocardial infarction, and a 62-year-old woman with atypical chest pain.
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