"Jesse Dinkin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:I had a stress test and the cardilogist said that my injection fraction was
47%. Based on this information he is telling me that I have early cardio
myopathy????
He does not know what caused it.......Prior to this I was a very active
person, running and working out at the gym.....so what can I expect with
this conditon.....is it going to get worse????? is it curable????? with
what ?????? should I get a second opinion????? is it related to dental
disease.....or viral or bacterial causes????
What type of "stress test?" The lower limits of normal for a 'MUGA' is
50% to 55% and a myocardial perfusion scan may be as low as 45%
because of the lower temporal resolution, 8 frames per cardiac cycle
vs 16 to 48 for a MUGA. 47% for an eye-ball echo is not too reliable.
If a Simpson's rule was used, it would be more accurate but still
operator dependent. Unless there is other information, calling a
cardiomyopathy based only on a borderline ejection fraction without
regional wall motion abnormalities is a streach. But there may be a
great deal of other information you have not provided.