Authors
Marco Francone, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Iacopo Carbone, Emanuele Canali, Raffaele Scardala, Francesca A Calabrese, Gennaro Sardella, Massimo Mancone, Carlo Catalano, Francesco Fedele, Roberto Passariello, Jan Bogaert, Luciano Agati
Publication date
2009/12/1
Journal
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Volume
54
Issue
23
Pages
2145-2153
Publisher
American College of Cardiology Foundation
Description
Objectives
We investigated the extent and nature of myocardial damage by using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in relation to different time-to-reperfusion intervals.
Background
Previous studies evaluating the influence of time to reperfusion on infarct size (IS) and myocardial salvage in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have yielded conflicting results.
Methods
Seventy patients with STEMI successfully treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention within 12 h from symptom onset underwent CMR 3 ± 2 days after hospital admission. Patients were subcategorized into 4 time-to-reperfusion (symptom onset to balloon) quartiles: ≤90 min (group I, n = 19), >90 to 150 min (group II, n = 17), >150 to 360 min (group III, n = 17), and >360 min (group IV, n = 17). T2-weighted short tau inversion recovery and late gadolinium enhancement CMR were used to characterize …
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