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Does scintigraphic imaging allow for the identification and sizing of acute myocardial infarcts and assessment of left ventricular function?
Does scintigraphic imaging allow for the identification and sizing of acute myocardial infarcts and assessment of left ventricular function?
Scintigraphic imaging provides a noninvasive method to identify, localize, and size acute myocardial infarcts while assessing left ventricular function.
May support noninvasive acute MI assessment; hypothesis-generating pending modern validation trials.
It is now possible by scintigraphic imaging to identify the presence of acute transmural or nontransmural myocardial infarcts by noninvasive techniques and to localize acute transmural infarcts. Radionuclide blood-pool scintigraphy allows assessment of the impact of old and new myocardial damage on left ventricular function.
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Willerson et al. (1977) studied this question.
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