title: Usefulness of cardiac MRI in the prognosis and follow-up of ischemic heart disease.
abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important tool that makes it possible to evaluate patients with cardiovascular disease; in addition to infarction and alterations in myocardial perfusion, cardiac MRI is useful for evaluating other phenomena such as microvascular obstruction and ischemia. The main prognostic factors in cardiac MRI are ventricular dysfunction, necrosis in late enhancement sequences, and ischemia in stress sequences. In acute myocardial infarction, cardiac MRI can evaluate the peri-infarct zone and quantify the size of the infarct. Furthermore, cardiac MRI's ability to detect and evaluate microvascular obstruction makes it a fundamental tool for establishing the prognosis of ischemic heart disease. In patients with chronic ischemic heart disease, cardiac MRI can detect ischemia induced by pharmacological stress and can diagnose infarcts that can be missed on other techniques.
authors: Sección de Radiología Cardiotorácica. Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, España. Electronic address: alhidalgop@gmail.com.
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Hidalgo
authors: Unidad de Imagen Cardíaca, Departamento de Cardiología, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, España.
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authors: G
authors: Pons-Lladó
mesh_terms: D057791:Cardiac Imaging Techniques; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011379:Prognosis
keywords: Corazón; Heart; Infarto de miocardio; Isquemia miocárdica; Magnetic resonance imaging; Miocardio; Myocardial infarction; Myocardial ischemia; Myocardium; Prognosis; Pronóstico; Resonancia magnética