Open AccessMonitoring reperfused myocardial infarction with delayed left ventricular systolic dysfunction in rabbits by longitudinal imaging
Author(s) -
Yuanbo Feng,
Bianca Hemmeryckx,
Liesbeth Frederix,
Marleen Lox,
Jun Wu,
Ward Heggermont,
Hua Lü,
David J. Gallacher,
Raymond Oyen,
H.R. Lijnen,
Yicheng Ni
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-4292
pISSN - 2223-4306
DOI - 10.21037/qims.2018.09.05
Subject(s) - cardiology , myocardial infarction , medicine , infarction
An experimental imaging platform for longitudinal monitoring and evaluation of cardiac morphology-function changes has been long desired. We sought to establish such a platform by using a rabbit model of reperfused myocardial infarction (MI) that develops chronic left ventricle systolic dysfunction (LVSD) within 7 weeks.