Left ventricular functional recovery of infarcted and remote myocardium after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (METOCARD-CNIC randomized clinical trial substudy)

Table 2 The effect of microvascular obstruction (MVO) on infarct and remote zone strain

	Infarct zone circumferential strain (%)				Remote zone circumferential strain (%)
	1 week	6 months	MD [95% CI]	P-value*	1 week	6 months	MD [95% CI]	P-value*
MVO (N = 117)	− 5.1 ± 8.8	−11.2 ± 7.8	−6.2 [− 7.7 to − 4.7]	< 0.001	− 19.3 ± 7.0	− 19.2 ± 3.8	0.1 [− 1.0 to 1.3]	0.828
No MVO (N = 73)	−14.2 ± 6.1	− 19.5 ± 5.1	− 5.3 [− 6.5 to − 4.1]	< 0.001	− 19.7 ± 3.4	−19.2 ± 4.2	0.5 [− 0.5 to 1.5]	0.313
MD [95% CI]	9.2 [6.9 to 11.5]	8.3 [6.5 to 10.2]			0.4 [−1.4 to 2.1]	0.0 [−1.2 to 1.1]
P-value†	< 0.001	< 0.001			0.677	0.981

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