[Criteria of prognosis in apparently primary hypokinetic myocardiopathies (prospective study of 60 cases)].

The fate of 60 cases of apparently primary cardiomyopathy were studied by angiocardiography and coronary arteriography over a 2 to 6 year period, with a mean of 4 years. Correlations were established between the clinical, paraclinical, haemodynamic and angiocardiographic findings on the one hand, and the quality and length of survival on the other. Among the criteria leading to an improved prognosis, the most precise was the left ventricular ejection fraction.