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SUBMITTER: Follin B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857952 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Follin Bjarke B Hoeeg Cecilie C Hunter Ingrid I Bentsen Simon S Juhl Morten M Jensen Jacob Kildevang JK Binderup Tina T Nielsen Carsten Haagen CH Ripa Rasmus Sejersten RS Kastrup Jens J Ekblond Annette A Kjaer Andreas A
Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) 20230111 2
An increasing number of patients are living with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and/or heart failure. Treatment options and prognostic tools are lacking for many of these patients. Our aim was to investigate the prognostic value of imaging angiogenesis and macrophage activation via positron emission tomography (PET) in terms of functional improvement after cell therapy. Myocardial infarction was induced in rats. Animals were scanned with [<sup>18</sup>F]FDG PET and echocardiography after ...[more]