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CMR measurements of myocardial infarct heterogeneity using MCLE and IR-FGRE: correlation with arrhythmia inducibility and severe ICD events in patients with ischemic heart disease

✍ Scribed by Yuesong Yang; Kim A Connelly; Tawfiq Zeidan; Subodh B Joshi; John J Graham; Gideon A Paul; Rhonda Walcarius; Alexander J Dick; Eugene Crystal; Graham Wright

Publisher: BioMed Central
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 118 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 1097-6647
DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-14-s1-o105

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✦ Synopsis

This study used CMR to evaluate patients with IHD prior to ICD implantation and correlated CMR measurements to VA inducibility and spontaneous VA events during follow-up. The results demonstrated that the gray-zone measurement using MCLE may be more sensitive in predicting appropriate ICD therapy for VA.