Extent of wall motion abnormalities with cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging overestimates the degree of coronary artery disease in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy
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Background Patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (CMP) often develop regional wall motion abnormalities (WMA) due to myocardial scarring, stunning or hibernation. Abnormal functioning myocardial segments without evidence of fibrosis on late gadolinium-enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR) are felt to represent stunned or hibernating myocardium, presumably with significant coronary artery disease (CAD) in the vessel supplying the region. We analyzed the association between segmental wall motion abnormalities (WMA) and underlying CAD in ischemic CMP.
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