Value of delayed-enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in predicting myocardial viability after surgical revascularization.

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BACKGROUND: Despite the accepted utility of delayed-enhancement MRI in identifying irreversible myocardial injury, no study has yet assessed its role as a viability tool exclusively in the setting of coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG), and no study has repeated delayed-enhancement MRI late after revascularization. In a clinical trial in which patients underwent CABG by either the off-pump or on-pump surgical technique, we hypothesized that (1) preoperative delayed-enhancement MRI would ha...

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Authors: Selvanayagam, J; Kardos, A; Francis, J; Wiesmann, F; Petersen, SE

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Circulation
• Volume: 110
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 1535-1541
• Publication date: 2004-09-01
• DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.0000142045.22628.74
• EISSN: 1524-4539
• ISSN: 0009-7322
• Language: English
• Keywords: Gadolinium DTPA; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Myocardial Reperfusion Injury; Observer Variation; Cohort Studies; Postoperative Period; Necrosis; Follow-Up Studies; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; Coronary Artery Bypass; Aged; Myocardial Contraction; Myocardium; Humans; Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Female; Middle Aged; Contrast Media; Male