Quantitative and qualitative assessment of acute myocardial injury by CMR at multiple time points after acute myocardial infarction

摘要

Background: Recent experimental studies have shown a dynamic time course of myocardial edema with an initial wave of edematous reaction within hours after reperfusion which almost resolved at 24 h. However, this dynamic pattern appears to be absent in clinical cohort studies. Thus far, no studies have combined a quantitative and qualitative assessment of acute myocardial injury in a large clinical cohort to explain these divergent findings.