Right Ventricular Ischemic Injury in Patients With Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Author(s) -
Pier Giorgio Masci,
Marco Francone,
Walter Desmet,
Javier Gáname,
Giancarlo Todiere,
Rocco Donato,
Valeria Siciliano,
Iacopo Carbone,
Matteo Mangia,
Elisabetta Strata,
Carlo Catalano,
Massimo Lombardi,
Luciano Agati,
Stefan Janssens,
Jan Bogaert
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.110.940254
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , myocardial infarction , st segment , ischemic injury , elevation (ballistics) , electrocardiography in myocardial infarction , ischemia , geometry , mathematics
Experimental data show that the right ventricle (RV) is more resistant to ischemia than the left ventricle. To date, limited data are available in humans because of the difficulty of discriminating reversible from irreversible ischemic damage. We sought to characterize RV ischemic injury in patients with reperfused myocardial infarction using cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
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