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University Hospital, Aachen

Late-enhancement MSCT is reliable in assessing MI infarct size

Published in Lab Law Weekly, August 19th, 2005

A recent report provides an assessment of myocardial viability in reperfused acute myocardial infarction using 16-slice computed tomography in comparison to magnetic resonance imaging.

According to scientists in Germany, "The aim of [our] study was to examine if contrast-enhanced multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) is comparable to contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for depiction of acute myocardial infarction (MI). Delayed-enhancement MRI of MI is well established, but there are no clinical reports about MSCT for this indication. Early perfusion deficit on MSCT has been reported to correlate with the presence of MI."

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