Key result
Native T1 and T2 mapping differentiate acute from chronic MI with ~0.98 AUC, outperforming T2-weighted MRI.
Observational (n=67)
Effect estimate: AUC 0.975 for native T1 and AUC 0.979 for native T2
p-value: p=<.01
Purpose To analyze the diagnostic accuracy of native T1 and T2 mapping compared with visual and quantitative assessment of edema on T2-weighted cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) images to differentiate between acute and chronic myocardial infarction. Materials and Methods This study had institutional ethics committee approval. Written informed consent was obtained from 67 consecutive patients (57 years ± 12; 78% men) with a first acute myocardial infarction, who were prospectively enrolled between April 2011 and June 2015. Four serial 1.5-T MR imaging examinations were performed at 8 days ± 5, 7 weeks ± 2, 3 months ± 0.5, and 6 months ± 1.4 after infarction and included T2-weighted, native T1/T2 mapping, and late gadolinium enhancement MR imaging. Complete follow-up data were obtained in 42 patients. Regional native T1/T2 relaxation time, T2-weighted ratio, and extracellular volume were serially measured in infarcted and remote myocardium. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the MR imaging parameters for discriminating between acute and chronic myocardial infarction. Results Native T1 of infarcted myocardium decreased from 1286 msec ± 99 at baseline to 1077 msec ± 50 at 6 months (P < .0001), whereas T2 decreased from 84 msec ± 10 to 58 msec ± 4 (P < .0001). The T2-weighted ratio decreased from 4.1 ± 1.0 to 2.4 ± 0.6 (P < .0001). Of all the MR imaging parameters obtained, native T1 and T2 yielded the best areas under the ROC curve (AUCs) of 0.975 and 0.979, respectively, for differentiating between acute and chronic myocardial infarction. Visual analysis of the presence of edema at standard T2-weighted cardiac MR imaging resulted in an inferior AUC of 0.863 (P < .01). Conclusion Native T1 and T2 of infarcted myocardium are excellent discriminators between acute and chronic myocardial infarction and are superior to all other MR imaging parameters. Online supplemental material is available for this article.
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Tahir et al. (2017) conducted an observational in First acute myocardial infarction (n=67). Quantitative native T1 and T2 mapping vs. Visual and quantitative assessment of edema on T2-weighted cardiac MR images was evaluated on Diagnostic accuracy (AUC) for differentiating between acute and chronic myocardial infarction (AUC 0.975 for native T1 and AUC 0.979 for native T2, p=<.01). Native T1 and T2 mapping yielded excellent diagnostic accuracy for differentiating acute from chronic myocardial infarction (AUCs 0.975 and 0.979, respectively), superior to standard T2-weighted MRI (AUC 0.863; P<0.01).
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