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01-01-2013 | Poster presentation
Peri-infarct edema leads to overestimation of myocardial salvage in late reperfused myocardial infarction
Authors:
Iacopo Carbone, Marco Francone, Ingo Eitel, Jan Bogaert, Peter Bernhardt, Pier Giorgio Masci, Sven Plein, Matthias G Friedrich
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
In patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) the myocardial salvage index (MSI) quantified by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) is defined as the volumetric difference of myocardial edema, reflecting the perfusion bed, and the infarcted tissue. …