✦ LIBER ✦
Characterization of subacute and convalescent fibrotic burden in the remote myocardium after acute infarction provides strong and incremental prediction of changes in left and right functions and final infarct size, incremental to knowledge of the subacute infarct size
✍ Scribed by Damien Mandry; Evan Appelbaum; Bobby Heydari; Shuaib Abdullah; Sanjeev Francis; Heidi S Lumish; Brian B Ghoshhajra; Udo Hoffmann; Henry Gewirtz; Ron Blankstein; Yucheng Chen; Jiazuo H Feng; Karl-Philipp Kienle; Rob J van der Geest; Elliott Antman; Michael Jerosch-Herold; Raymond Kwong
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 88 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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✦ Synopsis
To test the hypothesis that fibrotic burden in remote myocardium quantified by CMR during early period of infarct healing is a strong determinant of the cardiac remodeling outcome.