Contrast-Enhanced Multidetector Computed Tomography Viability Imaging After Myocardial Infarction

Contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography viability imaging after myocardial infarction: characterization of myocyte death, microvascular obstruction, and chronic scar.

BACKGROUND The ability to distinguish dysfunctional but viable myocardium from nonviable tissue has important prognostic implications after myocardial infarction. The purpose of this study was to validate the accuracy of contrast-enhanced multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) for quantifying myocardial necrosis, microvascular obstruction, and chronic scar after occlusion/reperfusion myocardi...

Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography

Contrast-enhanced computed tomography for early detection of acute myocardial infarction due to blunt chest trauma

We report a case of blunt chest injury following a road accident leading to damage of the left main and left anterior descending coronary arteries causing acute myocardial infarction in a young person.

Detection of myocardial infarction by delayed contrast-enhanced multislice computed tomography.

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Myocardial viability assessment by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

Recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease has intensified the need to differentiate viable from nonviable myocardium with accuracy and high spatial resolution. Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) had been investigated as a potential technique to assess myocardial viability for several years (1), before the development of gradient echo-imaging techn...