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

Table 3 The effect of intramyocardial hemorrhage (IMH) 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*
IMH (N = 81)	−4.1 ± 9.4	−10.5 ± 7.8	−6.4 [−8.3 to − 4.4]	< 0.001	−19.2 ± 7.7	− 19.3 ± 3.7	−0.2 [− 1.7 to 1.4]	0.852
No IMH (N = 110)	− 11.9 ± 7.1	−17.4 ± 6.8	−5.5 [− 6.5 to − 4.4]	< 0.001	−19.8 ± 4.0	− 19.1 ± 4.1	0.6 [− 0.1 to 1.4]	0.102
MD [95% CI]	7.8 [5.5 to 10.2]	6.9 [4.8 to 9.0]			0.6 [−1.1 to 2.3]	−0.2 [− 1.3 to 0.9]
P-value†	< 0.001	< 0.001			0.504	0.736

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