Intramyocardial Adiposity After Myocardial Infarction

Intramyocardial adiposity after myocardial infarction: new implications of a substrate for ventricular tachycardia.

BACKGROUND Collagen has been attributed as the principal structural substrate of ventricular tachycardia (VT) after myocardial infarction (MI), even though adiposity of myocardium after MI is well recognized histologically. We investigated the effects of intramyocardial adiposity compared with collagen on electrophysiological properties, connexin43 expression, and VT induction after MI. METHO...

Coronary embolization of an intramyocardial hematoma after myocardial infarction.

Intramyocardial Adiposity Post-Myocardial Infarction: New Implications of a Substrate for Ventricular Tachycardia

Intramyocardial hemorrhage in spontaneously reperfused myocardial infarction.

OBJECTIVE. The presence of intramyocardial hemorrhage (IMH) is frequent in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). We aim for the presence IMH using cMRI in patients who presented AMI and did not undergo PPCI or thrombolysis. Cardiac magnetic resonance has proven to be a highly sensitive method for detect its presence in the ...

Intramyocardial hemorrhage contributes to microvascular obstruction in acute myocardial infarction

Background Patients with hemorrhagic infarcts appear to constitute a high-risk group in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the clinical implications of hemorrhagic versus non-hemorrhagic infarcts are currently unclear, warranting a more systematic and mechanistic approach towards understanding the underlying consequences. The question of whether hemorrhage is simply a bystander or cont...