Identification of LV recovery after myocardial infarction is important but challenging.
Longitudinal systolic lengthening duration is an independent predictor of segmental as well as global LV recovery after anterior myocardial infarction treated successfully by primary angioplasty.
Longitudinal systolic lengthening duration is independently linked to in-hospital events driven by heart failure and to coronary microvascular integrity assessed noninvasively by the coronary flow reserve and the no-reflow pattern.