title: Prediction of myocardium at risk. Clinical significance during acute infarction and in evaluating subsequent prognosis.
abstract: Noninvasive cardiac imaging is currently used to assess myocardial salvage following reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction and to stratify patients by risk for the development of subsequent cardiac events. The latter is most important when deciding who might benefit from coronary angiography and revascularization. This article summarizes the roles of radionuclide angiography, two-dimensional echocardiography, and myocardial perfusion imaging in the clinical assessment and management of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Mahmarian
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004452:Echocardiography; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi