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.
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.
Becker et al. (Tue,) studied this question.