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Article: Research on heart attack detailed by C.J. Jensen and co-authors.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 15, 2009
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According to recent research from Essen, Germany, "To assess myocardial salvage in acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) by using contrast-enhanced CMR. Forty-four consecutive patients (38 male; mean age 59 +/- A 10 years) with a first acute STEMI underwent acute percutaneous coronary intervention with successful restoration of TIMI grade 3 flow."
"CMR was performed 2 +/- A 1 days after reperfusion on a standard 1.5 T MR Scanner that included a steady-state free precession cine imaging for LV function and an inversion-recovery fast low angle shot (TR 8 ms, TE 4 ms, FA 25A degrees) sequences for late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) following the ...
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