Evaluation of Myocardial Viability by MRI

Relationship of MRI Delayed Contrast Enhancement to Irreversible Injury, Infarct Age, and Contractile Function

1999 • 2,545 citations

Prognostic Significance of Microvascular Obstruction by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

1998 • 1,364 citations

Clinical Implications of the ‘No Reflow’ Phenomenon

1996 • 1,031 citations

Early phase acute myocardial infarct size quantification: Validation of the triphenyl tetrazolium chloride tissue enzyme staining technique

1981 • 925 citations

Noninvasive Diagnosis of Ischemia-Induced Wall Motion Abnormalities With the Use of High-Dose Dobutamine Stress MRI

1999 • 803 citations

Biochemical markers of myocardial injury. Is MB creatine kinase the choice for the 1990s?

1993 • 568 citations

Myocardial reperfusion, limitation of infarct size, reduction of left ventricular dysfunction, and improved survival. Should the paradigm be expanded?

1989 • 560 citations

Current diagnostic techniques of assessing myocardial viability in patients with hibernating and stunned myocardium.

1993 • 557 citations

Myocardial 'stunning' in man.

1992 • 531 citations

Regional Heterogeneity of Human Myocardial Infarcts Demonstrated by Contrast-Enhanced MRI

1995 • 485 citations

Physiological Basis of Myocardial Contrast Enhancement in Fast Magnetic Resonance Images of 2-Day-Old Reperfused Canine Infarcts

1995 • 483 citations

Progressive impairment of regional myocardial perfusion after initial restoration of postischemic blood flow.

1989 • 468 citations

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of acute myocardial infarction in dogs: Alterations in magnetic relaxation times

1983 • 365 citations

Comparison of Low-Dose Dobutamine–Gradient-Echo Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography With [ ¹⁸ F]Fluorodeoxyglucose in Patients With Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

1995 • 363 citations

Dobutamine Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predicts Contractile Recovery of Chronically Dysfunctional Myocardium After Successful Revascularization

1998 • 297 citations

Potential benefits of late reperfusion of infarcted myocardium. The open artery hypothesis.

1993 • 271 citations

Early Contrast-Enhanced MRI Predicts Late Functional Recovery After Reperfused Myocardial Infarction

1999 • 249 citations

Assessment of Myocardial Viability in Patients With Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

1996 • 206 citations

Effect of Infarct Artery Patency on Prognosis After Acute Myocardial Infarction

1995 • 197 citations

Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Assessment of Myocardial Viability in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Left Ventricular Dysfunction

1998 • 180 citations

Quantitative Measurements of Cardiac Phosphorus Metabolites in Coronary Artery Disease by ³¹ P Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

1995 • 178 citations

Characterization of spatial patterns of flow within the reperfused myocardium by myocardial contrast echocardiography. Implications in determining extent of myocardial salvage.

1993 • 176 citations

Non-invasive magnetic-resonance detection of creatine depletion in non-viable infarcted myocardium

1998 • 173 citations

Reperfused and nonreperfused myocardial infarction: diagnostic potential of Gd-DTPA--enhanced MR imaging.

1989 • 160 citations

Quantitative Assessment of Myocardial Viability After Infarction by Dobutamine Magnetic Resonance Tagging

1998 • 142 citations

Imaging and characterization of acute myocardial infarction in vivo by gated nuclear magnetic resonance.

1984 • 141 citations

Analysis of creatine kinase, CK-MB, myoglobin, and troponin T time-activity curves for early assessment of coronary artery reperfusion after intravenous thrombolysis.

1993 • 140 citations

Differentiation of reversible and irreversible myocardial injury by MR imaging with and without gadolinium-DTPA.

1986 • 138 citations

Fast ²³ Na Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Acute Reperfused Myocardial Infarction

1997 • 131 citations

Relationship of Elevated ²³ Na Magnetic Resonance Image Intensity to Infarct Size After Acute Reperfused Myocardial Infarction

1999 • 128 citations

Regional left ventricular wall thickening. Relation to regional uptake of 18fluorodeoxyglucose and 201Tl in patients with chronic coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction.

1992 • 124 citations

Comparison of ²⁰¹ Tl, ^99m Tc-Tetrofosmin, and Dobutamine Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Identifying Hibernating Myocardium

1998 • 113 citations

The hibernating myocardium: implications for management of congestive heart failure

1995 • 106 citations

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in different stages of myocardial infarction using the contrast agent gadolinium‐DTPA

1986 • 105 citations

The determination of myocardial viability using Gd‐DTPA in a canine model of acute myocardial ischemia and reperfusion

1996 • 100 citations

Acute, subacute, and chronic myocardial infarction: quantitative analysis of gadolinium-enhanced MR images.

1991 • 100 citations

Assessment of myocardial ischemia with proton magnetic resonance: effects of a three hour coronary occlusion with and without reperfusion.

1985 • 98 citations

Diagnostic significance of gadolinium-DTPA (diethylenetriamine penta-acetic acid) enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in thrombolytic treatment for acute myocardial infarction: its potential in assessing reperfusion.

1990 • 97 citations

Short- and long-term clinical outcome after Q wave and non-Q wave myocardial infarction in a large patient population.

1989 • 97 citations

Improved in vivo magnetic resonance imaging of acute myocardial infarction after intravenous paramagnetic contrast agent administration

1986 • 96 citations

MR imaging of acute myocardial infarction: value of Gd-DTPA

1988 • 95 citations

Metabolic evidence of viable myocardium in regions with reduced wall thickness and absent wall thickening in patients with chronic ischemic left ventricular dysfunction

1992 • 95 citations

Comparison of Dobutamine Transesophageal Echocardiography and Dobutamine Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Detection of Residual Myocardial Viability

1996 • 94 citations

Serial nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of acute myocardial infarction with and without reperfusion

1988 • 93 citations

Chronic ischemic viable myocardium in man: Aspects of dedifferentiation

1995 • 93 citations

Low-dosage dobutamine magnetic resonance imaging as an alternative to echocardiography in the detection of viable myocardium after acute infarction

1995 • 88 citations

Occlusive and reperfused myocardial infarcts: effect of Gd-DTPA on ECG-gated MR imaging.

1986 • 82 citations

Differentiation of Viable and Nonviable Myocardium by the Use of Three-Dimensional Tagged MRI in 2-Day-Old Reperfused Canine Infarcts

1999 • 82 citations

Theoretical basis for sodium and potassium MRI of the human heart at 1.5 T

1997 • 80 citations

Dobutamine magnetic resonance imaging with myocardial tagging quantitatively predicts improvement in regional function after revascularization

1998 • 79 citations

Assessment of myocardial infarct size by means of T2-weighted 1H nuclear magnetic resonance imaging

1989 • 76 citations

Contrast enhanced and functional magnetic resonance imaging for the detection of viable myocardium after infarction

1998 • 70 citations

Assessment of myocardial viability using MRI during a constant infusion of Gd-DTPA: Further studies at early and late periods of reperfusion

1999 • 68 citations

The relationship between proton nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation parameters and myocardial perfusion with acute coronary arterial occlusion and reperfusion.

1985 • 63 citations

Distinguishing viable from infarcted myocardium after experimental ischemia and reperfusion by using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging

1990 • 60 citations

Serial changes in the T1 magnetic relaxation parameter after myocardial infarction in man.

1988 • 54 citations

Measurement of myocardial infarct size at early and late time intervals using MR imaging: an experimental study in dogs

1987 • 53 citations

Sodium nuclear magnetic resonance imaging of myocardial tissue of dogs after coronary artery occlusion and reperfusion

1986 • 52 citations

Serial changes in nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation times after myocardial infarction in the rabbit: Relationship to water content, severity of ischemia, and histopathology over a six‐month period

1988 • 52 citations

Regional 99mTc-methoxyisobutyl-isonitrile-uptake at rest in patients with myocardial infarcts: comparison with morphological and functional parameters obtained from gradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging

1994 • 49 citations

Myocardial infarct size quantification by MR imaging early after coronary artery occlusion in dogs.

1986 • 49 citations

Detection and sizing of myocardial ischemia and infarction by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging in the canine heart

1985 • 48 citations

MRI of reperfused myocardial infarct in dogs

1986 • 44 citations

Proton nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation times in severe myocardial ischemia

1987 • 44 citations

Identification of viable myocardium in patients with chronic coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction: Role of magnetic resonance imaging

1994 • 35 citations

Physiological Basis for Potassium ( ³⁹ K) Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Heart

1999 • 35 citations

In vivo detection of reperfused myocardium by nuclear magnetic resonance imaging

1987 • 35 citations

Correlation of Thallium Uptake With Left Ventricular Wall Thickness by Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Acute and Healed Myocardial Infarcts

1997 • 31 citations

Reperfused-viable and reperfused-infarcted myocardium: differentiation with in vivo P-31 MR spectroscopy.

1989 • 30 citations

Integrated MRI assessment of regional function and perfusion in canine myocardial infarction

1998 • 29 citations

Evaluation of myocardial viability following ischemic and reperfusion injury using phosphorus 31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in vivo

1990 • 19 citations

[Magnetic resonance tomography imaging techniques for diagnosing myocardial vitality].

1994 • 15 citations

Characterization of acute myocardial infarction by magnetic resonance imaging

1992 • 15 citations

Serial magnetic resonance imaging in patients following acute myocardial infarction

1991 • 15 citations

Characterization of reversible myocardial dysfunction by magnetic resonance imaging.

1994 • 12 citations

Detection of viable myocardium in segments with fixed defects on thallium-201 scintigraphy: Usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging early after acute myocardial infarction

1993 • 12 citations

Differentiation of reperfused-viable (stunned) from reperfused-infarcted myocardium at 1 to 3 days postreperfusion by in vivo phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

1991 • 12 citations

Magnetic resonance techniques for the assessment of myocardial viability: Clinical experience

1995 • 11 citations