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How Much Myocardial Damage Is Necessary to Enable Detection of Focal Late Gadolinium Enhancement at Cardiac MR Imaging?

Kai Naßenstein, Frank Breuckmann, Christina Bucher, Gernot M. Kaiser, Thomas Konorza, Lena Schäfer, Ina Konietzka, Armin de Greiff, Gerd Heusch, Raimund Erbel,

Radiology · 2008 · 48 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

Focal myocardial damage exceeding 5% of myocardium within the region of interest seems to be necessary for detection of LGE in vivo in an experimental model of coronary microembolization.

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Histopathology, Diagnosis, Pathology +4

Unstable angina with fatal outcome: dynamic coronary thrombosis leading to infarction and/or sudden death. Autopsy evidence of recurrent mural thrombosis with peripheral embolization culminating in total vascular occlusion.

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Vascular Disease, Sudden Death, Dynamic Coronary Thrombosis +16

Intramyocardial platelet aggregation in patients with unstable angina suffering sudden ischemic cardiac death.

Michael J. Davies, Anthony Thomas, Paola Knapman et al. · Circulation · 1986 · 530 citations · Full text

Thrombosis, Intramyocardial Platelet Aggregates, Ventricular Fibrillation +15

Accurate and objective infarct sizing by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in a canine myocardial infarction model

Luciano C. Amado, Bernhard Gerber, Sandeep Gupta et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2004 · 499 citations

Objective Infarct Sizing, Engineering, Vascular Image +15

Reproducibility of Chronic Infarct Size Measurement by Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Heiko Mahrholdt, Anja Wagner, Thomas A. Holly et al. · Circulation · 2002 · 407 citations · Full text