Following 197 patients with myocardial infarction, Pazhenkottil (2011) showed that the rate of patients with MACE in the group with left ventricular dyssynchrony was much higher than that in the group without left ventricular dyssynchrony (62.9% compared with 24.7%) and proved that left ventricular dyssynchrony is one of the three independent predictors of MACE.