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Does layer-specific analysis of myocardial deformation allow accurate discrimination between different transmurality categories of myocardial infarction?
Does layer-specific analysis of myocardial deformation allow accurate discrimination between different transmurality categories of myocardial infarction?
Layer-specific myocardial deformation imaging can accurately discriminate between transmural and non-transmural myocardial infarctions based on differential impairment of myocardial layers.
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Supports layer-specific strain for MI transmurality discrimination; hypothesis-generating pending prospective validation.
Non-transmural infarction results in greater functional impairment of the endocardial than of the epicardial myocardial layer. In transmural infarction both layers are affected similarly compared with controls. A layer-specific analysis of myocardial deformation allows accurate discrimination between different transmurality categories of myocardial infarction.
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Becker et al. (2009) studied this question.
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