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Question

please can you tell me what (relating to the heart) an ejection fraction of 30 - 40% with inferior and posterior akinesia means?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

During each heartbeat cycle, the heart contracts and relaxes. When your heart contracts (systole), it ejects blood from the two pumping chambers (ventricles). When your heart relaxes (diastole), the ventricles refill with blood. No matter how forceful the contraction, it doesn't empty all of the blood out of a ventricle. The term "ejection fraction" refers to the percentage of blood that's pumped out of a filled ventricle with each heartbeat. This measures the capacity at which your heart is pumping.

Because the left ventricle is the heart's main pumping chamber, ejection fraction is usually measured only in the left ventricle (LV). A normal LV ejection fraction is 55 percent to 70 percent. The ejection fraction may decrease when the heart muscle has been damaged, such as due to:

    * Heart attack

    * Heart-muscle disease (cardiomyopathy)

    * Heart valve problems

Ejection fraction = (Diastolic volume - systolic volume) x 100 divided by Diastolic volume.

Ejection fraction:-

Normal value = 70%

Good = 50 to 70%

Moderate = 30 to 50%

Poor = 15 to 30%

Inferior means lower or beneath.

Posterior means situated at the back.

akinesia (Greek: a = without; kinesis = motion) means without movement. Abnormal absence or reduction of muscular movement. Lower and back portions of the heart are not moving or pulsating.

Please note that I am not a medical professional.

Consult your doctor.

Answer 2

This is much too important a question to be entrusted to strangers with unknown qualifications on YA.

This is a question for the specialist who detected the condition.

Doctors are notorious for not telling you things.  It shouldn't be like that, but you have to ask them.

Answer 3

Ejection fraction (EF) is a measurement of the pumping capacity of the heart. A normal ejection fraction is around 50 to 60%. This means that 60% of the blood that is in the left ventricle is pumped to the rest of the body. A low normal EF is 45-50%, mild decrease 40-45%, moderate decrease is 30-40, severe 20-30% and very severe <20%. Generally the heart cannot function with an EF of less than 10%

Inferior and posterior akinesia basically means that those segments of the heart wall are not contracting(like having a faulty pump where some bits are working properly and some are not)

Don't sit brewing over this at home talk to your Dr and say what you read and get him to explain in more detail