Usefulness of myocardial contrast echocardiography for the assessment of serial changes in risk area in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Serial myocardial contrast echocardiograms were recorded to investigate the time course of microvascular integrity in the risk area for first acute myocardial infarction. Serial changes in the risk area were categorized into 4 main types according to the potential for recovery from microvascular impairment.
Sakuma
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Division of Cardiology, Akane Foundation Tsuchiya General Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
Hayashi
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Y
Shimohara
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A
Shindo
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T
Maeda
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K
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003287:Contrast Media; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007485:Ioxaglic Acid; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
D003287:Contrast Media; D007485:Ioxaglic Acid