Cardiac magnetic resonance detection and typical appearance of microvascular obstruction following myocardial infarction

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-154

  Karatzis, Emmanouil N ^a   Pipilis, Athanassios G ^a   Malios, Konstantinos ^a   Andreou, John ^a   Roussakis, Arkadios ^a   Tsertos, Fotios ^a   Danias, Peter G ^a,b  

^a HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CMR imaging; Microvascular obstruction; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial viability

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 65949093050     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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