TY - JOUR AU - Schlosser, T.W. AB - Image of the month Herz2   012   ·  38:509–510 F.N   ensa·     A.A.M   ahabadi·     R.E   rbel·     T.W.S   chlosser DOI  10.1007/s00059-012-3705-y Department  of  Radiology,  University  Hospital  Essen,  Essen Received:1   1   July  2012 Revised:5     September  2012 Accepted:2   7   September  2012 Published  online: 23  December  2012 Myocardial edema during acute  ©  Urban  &  Vogel  2012 myocardial infarction visualized  by diffusion-weighted MRI A 58-year-old man presented with sud- angle 90°, echo time 71 ms, bandwidth Discussion den left-sided chest pain and shortness 1,736 Hz/pixel, matrix 192×156, voxel of breath. Acute myocardial infarction size 2.0×2.0 mm ), a standard turbo-in- In recent years, cardiac MRI became well (AMI) was confirmed by an electrocar- version recovery-magnitude (TIRM) T2- established as a valuable addition in the diogram (ECG) showing marked ST el- weighted (T2w) sequence and a standard clinical diagnosis of AMI. In patients evation with hyperacute T wave changes late enhancement (LE; 10 min after gado- with AMI, cardiac MRI allows not on- and a blood test with increased creatine linium injection) segmented 2D inver- ly for the analysis of global and regional kinase-MB fraction and troponin lev- sion recovery Turbo-FLASH sequence heart function but also for TI - Myocardial edema during acute myocardial infarction visualized by diffusion-weighted MRI JF - Herz DO - 10.1007/s00059-012-3705-y DA - 2012-12-23 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/myocardial-edema-during-acute-myocardial-infarction-visualized-by-kjZQAMjWrY SP - 509 EP - 510 VL - 38 IS - 5 DP - DeepDyve ER -