Background: Although the prognostic value of findings from cardiac magnetic resonance
(CMR) imaging has been established in single-center center studies in patients with ST …

Background: Invasive assessment of coronary physiology (IACP) offers important prognostic
insights in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) but the dynamics of coronary …

Microthrombosis plays a key role in many cardiovascular diseases. Although it is not difficult
to localize thrombus within large or middle-sized vessels, the noninvasive diagnostic …

Background Intramyocardial haemorrhage (IMH) and microvascular obstruction (MVO)
represent reperfusion injury after reperfused ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with …

Background—Inflammation and myocardial necrosis play important roles in
ischemia/reperfusion injury after coronary artery occlusion and recanalization. The detection …

Guidelines report that the optimal treatment for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is
a primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) when performed timely by trained …

Microvascular endothelial cell dysfunction plays a key role in myocardial
ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury, wherein reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent …

Purpose We aimed to investigate whether combination therapy using intracoronary (IC)
abciximab and aspiration thrombectomy (AT) enhances myocardial perfusion compared to …

CMD can be sustained by several pathogenetic mechanisms. The importance of these
mechanisms appears to vary in different clinical settings, but several of them may coexist in …

Background Microvascular obstruction (MVO) at the acute phase of myocardial infarction
(MI) is associated with poor prognosis. We aimed to evaluate the correlation between …