Early mechanical reperfusion of the epicardial coronary artery by primary percutaneous
coronary intervention (PCI) is the guideline-recommended treatment for ST-elevation …

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is established in clinical practice for the
diagnosis and management of diseases of the cardiovascular system. However, current …

Aims Microvascular obstruction (MVO) is the underlying cause for the no-reflow
phenomenon in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The association …

Background: Although the prognostic value of findings from cardiac magnetic resonance
(CMR) imaging has been established in single-center center studies in patients with ST …

Background The benefit of reperfusion therapies for ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction
(STEMI) is limited by post-infarction left-ventricular (LV) dysfunction. Our aim was to …

appeared to plug the capillary lumen. 13 Cellular edema compressing the capillaries was
confirmed in more than one experiment. 10, 21, 22 This may explain the occasional benefit …

The goal of this systematic analysis is to provide a comprehensive review of the current
cardiac magnetic resonance data on microvascular obstruction (MVO) and intramyocardial …

Background—We hypothesized that preserved microvascular integrity in the area at risk
would favorably influence left ventricular (LV) remodeling and long-term outcome after acute …

▪ Abstract Therapies for myocardial infarction have historically been developed by trial and
error, rather than from an understanding of the structure and function of the healing infarct …

Background—We evaluated whether contrast-enhanced multidetector computed
tomography (CE-MDCT) might characterize myocardial infarct (MI) with patterns similar to …