ABC | Volume 113, Nº6, December 2019

Original Article Celebi et al. NT-pro BNP and left ventricular aneurysm Arq Bras Cardiol. 2019; 113(6):1129-1137 Figure 2 – Culprit Artery in Patients with Left ventricular aneurysm. LV: left ventricle; LMCA: left main coronary artery; LAD: left anterior descending coronary artery; CX: circumflex artery; RCA: right coronary artery. 45 35 25 15 10 20 30 40 5 0 % LMCA LAD CX RCA LV Aneurysm+ LV Aneurysm (-) p ≤ 0,01 for LAD, p = ns for LMCA, CX and RCA Figure 3 – Patients who developed left ventricular aneurysm after acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction had higher NT-pro BNP levels at admission. NT-pro BNP: N terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide LVA: left ventricular aneurysm. 1000 800 600 400 200 0 LVA– LVA+ NT-pro BNP Sources of Funding There were no external funding sources for this study. Study Association This study is not associated with any thesis or dissertation work. Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Ankara Numune Training and Education Hospital under the protocol number 179. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study. 1134