Is MRI Really the Gold Standard for the Quantification of Salvage from Myocardial Infarction?

Circulation Research

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 222-224

  Heusch, Philipp ^a   Nensa, Felix ^b   Heusch, Gerd ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Editorials; myocardial infarction; reperfusion; salvage therapy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY REPERFUSION; EDITORIAL; GOLD STANDARD; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PROTECTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC POSTCONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIUM;

EID: 84937541259     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.306929     Document Type: Editorial

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