Myocardial contrast echocardiography can accurately predict prognosis after AMI
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The risk of further cardiac events is high following acute myocardial infarction (AMI), especially after thrombolysis. Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) is a relatively new technique that can determine infarct size by detecting contrast microbubbles within the myocardium at the capillary level. Dwivedi et al. determined whether residual myocardial viability as assessed by MCE could predict hard clinical events more accurately than could the clinical, electrocardiographic, biochemical and resting left-ventricular-function parameters currently widely used as prognostic markers.
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