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European Heart Journal 2005 26(6):532-533; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi156
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The prognostic significance of microvascular obstruction after myocardial infarction as defined by cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Christopher M. Kramer*

Departments of Medicine and Radiology, University of Virginia Health System, Lee Street, PO Box 800170, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: 434 243 6060; fax: 434 982 1618. E-mail address: ckramer@virginia.edu

This editorial refers to ‘Sequelae of acute myocardial infarction regarding cardiac structure and function and their prognostic significance as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging’{dagger} by V. Hombach et al., on page 549

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Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has evolved into an important imaging tool in the assessment of patients with myocardial infarction (MI), with or without reperfusion. CMR is a gold standard technique for measuring left ventricular volumes and global function.1 The technique of delayed contrast enhancement has been carefully validated in animal markers as a measure of infarct size.2 The presence of hypo-enhanced regions at the core of hyper-enhanced infarctions is a marker of microvascular obstruction (MO)3 and a predictor of lack of functional recovery in the infarct zone4 and poor cardiovascular outcome in the patient post-MI.5

The paper by Hombach et al.6 is the largest report to date of these . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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