Quantification of peri-operative myocardial infarction after coronary artery bypass surgery | Zendy

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Quantification of peri-operative myocardial infarction after coronary artery bypass surgery

Author(s) -

Joseph B. Selvanayagam,

Stefan Neubauer,

David P. Taggart

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1016/j.ehj.2004.09.010

Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , cardiology , coronary artery bypass surgery , perioperative , pathophysiology , artery , peri , radiology

Dear Editor,In a recent study in the Journal , Steuer and colleagues1 report that elevated biochemical markers after on-pump CABG correspond to the amount of peri-operatively infarcted myocardium as measured by delayed-enhancement cardiac MRI (DE-MRI). They found that 18 out of 23 (78%) patients studied demonstrated delayed hyper-enhancement (HE) on MRI, with a median mass of 4.4 g. While we applaud the use of state of the art imaging techniques to address fundamental questions regarding the pathophysiology of peri-operative myocardial injury, this study suffers from a number of …

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