Ventricular Function After Acute Myocardial

From the Cardiovascular Division of the Department of Medicine, the Nuclear Medicine Division of the Department of Radiology, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco. This work was supported in part by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Grant HL 21793 and Federal Contract HV52989 of the Myocardial Infarction Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Manuscript received August 25, 1981; revised manuscript received November 23, 1981, accepted December 4,198l. l Dr. Dunn participated in this work while at the University of California, San Francisco, and is a recipient of an Overseas Clinical Fellowship from the National Heart Foundation of Australia, Sydney, Australia. Present address: Hallstrom Institute of Cardiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, 2050, Australia. + Dr. Botvinick is supported in part by a Grantin-Aid from the George D. Smith Fund, San Francisco, California, and is a recipient of an Established Investigator Award of the American Heart Association with funds donated also by the San Francisco Heart Association. Address for reprints: Elias H. Botvinick, MD, Department of Medicine/Cardiology. 1188 Moffitt Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 3rd and Parnassus Streets, San Francisco, California 94143. Infarction