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SUBMITTER: Ferreira VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3424120 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferreira Vanessa M VM Piechnik Stefan K SK Dall'Armellina Erica E Karamitsos Theodoros D TD Francis Jane M JM Choudhury Robin P RP Friedrich Matthias G MG Robson Matthew D MD Neubauer Stefan S
Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 20120621
<h4>Background</h4>T2w-CMR is used widely to assess myocardial edema. Quantitative T1-mapping is also sensitive to changes in free water content. We hypothesized that T1-mapping would have a higher diagnostic performance in detecting acute edema than dark-blood and bright-blood T2w-CMR.<h4>Methods</h4>We investigated 21 controls (55 ± 13 years) and 21 patients (61 ± 10 years) with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or acute regional myocardial edema without infarction. CMR performed within 7 days included ...[more]