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Can delayed enhancement and T2-weighted imaging distinguish acute from chronic myocardial infarction?

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boxed-textAbdel-Aty et al. (2004) Delayed enhancement and T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging differentiate acute from chronic myocardial infarction. Circulation 109: 2411–2416

Adding T2-weighted sequences to standard CMR infarct imaging has an occasional clinical application for patients in whom the culprit lesion cannot be identified by cardiac catheterization

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Sechtem, U., Mahrholdt, H. Can delayed enhancement and T2-weighted imaging distinguish acute from chronic myocardial infarction?. Nat Rev Cardiol 1, 22–23 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio0021

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