title: Sizing acute myocardial infarcts: present limitations and potential approaches.
abstract: It is now possible by scintigraphic imaging to identify the presence of acute transmural or nontransmural myocardial infarcts by noninvasive techniques and to localize acute transmural infarcts. Radionuclide blood-pool scintigraphy allows assessment of the impact of old and new myocardial damage on left ventricular function.
mesh_terms: D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011868:Radioisotopes; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium; D013793:Thallium; D014003:Tin Polyphosphates; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray
chemical_list: D011868:Radioisotopes; D014003:Tin Polyphosphates; D013667:Technetium; D013793:Thallium