The prognosis for patients with a residual scar from myocardial infarction (MI) after coronary
artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) has not been fully evaluated, so the present study …

Background Drawing on accumulated patient data from a hospital database, the goal of this
retrospective study was to analyze cardiac function associated with global preoperative …

Background Previous studies demonstrated that scar tissue assessed by late gadolinium
enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (LGE-CMR) is associated with …

Pre-operative cardiac assessment is important in the evaluation of patients undergoing
major vascular surgery. Our study aims to evaluate the value of absence of a transient …

To evaluate graft patency and myocardial viability after aorto-coronary (AC) bypass surgery,
58 patients (29 with old myocardial infarction and 29 with effort angina) underwent symptom …

Background Myocardial perfusion SPECT is often used to exclude late restenosis or disease
progression after coronary angioplasty (PTCA), but few studies have been published …

Objectives: This study investigated the incidence and long-term prognostic importance of
multiple myocardial scars in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in a large contemporary …

Half the patients who survive ST-segment elevation anterior myocardial infarction continue
to have ST elevation (STE) 6 months after the event. The mechanism for this and its clinical …

Objective Patients with heart failure and ischaemic heart disease may obtain benefit from
revascularisation if viable dysfunctional myocardium is present. Such patients have an …

Background Previous studies have shown that viable myocardium predicts recovery of left
ventricular (LV) dysfunction after revascularization. Our aim was to evaluate the prognostic …