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Stents and PCI - Your ejection fraction is certainly within the normal range. As for any lasting damage to your heart muscle, that can depend on when you experienced the STEMI, how quickly it was treated (we assume you received an angioplasty/stent). These are really questions for your cardiologist to answer with the angiograms/ultrasound data. Angioplasty.Org Staff, Angioplasty.Org, September 22, 2019
After STEMI my echo shows basal inferior and anteroseptal segments are thin scarred and akinetic Lad 60% stenosis from angiogram with LVEF= 58. Has my STEMI caused major damage to my heart and is there a possibility of heart failure? Stents and PCI, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, September 13, 2019