The capacity of computerized tomography to assess myocardial edema resulting from acute coronary occlusion was investigated in 19 arrested and 2 beating canine hearts. Edematous myocardium was consistently detected as areas of decreased attenuation values. The magnitude of the decrease in
Ethanol (1, 2 and 3 g/kg, intravenously) decreased the severity of the ischemic arrhythmias in rats with ligation of the left coronary artery and subsequent coronary reperfusion. Reperfusion arrhythmias occurring intensively after occlusion times of 5 and 15 min, respectively, were however not
The contribution of myocardial edema to the no-reflow phenomenon, left ventricular functional recovery, and infarct size after coronary occlusion and reperfusion is uncertain. To examine this, we studied 26 open-chest dogs after coronary occlusion and reperfusion. Twelve dogs received hypertonic
This study was designed to measure early changes in myocardial perfusion after acute coronary occlusion, and to examine the relationships among blood flow, myocardial edema, and magnetic relaxation times of ex vivo myocardial tissue. In ten dogs, the left anterior descending coronary artery was
Pathophysiological responses after acute myocardial infarction include edema, hemorrhage, and microvascular obstruction along with cellular damage. The in vivo evolution of these processes simultaneously throughout infarct healing has not been well characterized. The purpose of our study was to
This study tested the hypothesis that preconditioning, by reducing catabolite accumulation during ischemia, reduces osmotic swelling and myocardial necrosis during subsequent reperfusion. Farm pigs were randomly allocated to one of three groups of treatment: a control group undergoing a 48-min
Two studies were performed to assess the importance of coronary reperfusion on pulmonary capillary endothelial permeability in 34 anesthetized dogs. The response of intravascular pulmonary blood volume (PBV) and extravascular lung water (EVLW) was examined using indicator-dilution and postmortem
Microsphere loss from the ischemic myocardium was studied in a canine model after 2 and 7 days coronary occlusion. 10 million tracer microspheres (TM) of 7-10 micrograms diameter were injected into the left atrium before and 15 minutes after left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) occlusion.
OBJECTIVE
This study was designed to determine whether imaging myocardial edema would identify acute myocardial ischemia before irreversible injury takes place.
BACKGROUND
Early identification of acute myocardial ischemia is a diagnostic challenge.
METHODS
We studied 15 dogs with serial
BACKGROUND
Post-ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) myocardial edema was recently shown to follow a consistent bimodal pattern: an initial wave of edema appears on reperfusion and dissipates at 24 h, followed by a deferred wave that initiates days after infarction, peaking at 1 week.
OBJECTIVE
This study
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this study was to determine whether cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) in vivo T1 mapping can measure myocardial area at risk (AAR) compared with microspheres or T2 mapping CMR.
BACKGROUND
If T2-weighted CMR is abnormal in the AAR due to edema related to myocardial ischemia, then
This study tests the hypothesis that more muscle salvage after acute ischemia is possible by "gentle," temporary reperfusion than with sudden, complete revascularization. Ten dogs underwent 4 hours of left anterior descending coronary artery ligation with reperfusion during total vented bypass for 1
The response of pulmonary blood volume (PBV) and extravascular lung water (EVLW) was examined by indicator-dilution techniques in 14 "open chest" dogs, seven that underwent coronary occlusion (group 2) and seven that served as controls (group 1). Data were obtained in a control stage (control stage
T(2) -weighted, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (T(2) w CMR) can be used to noninvasively detect and quantify the edematous region that corresponds to the area at risk (AAR) following myocardial infarction (MI). Previously, CMR has been used to examine structure and function in mice, expediting
The selective arterialization of coronary veins as a surgical therapy for diffuse coronary arteriosclerosis was studied in canine and sheep experiments. The arterialized blood can be delivered promptly to the selected region of the myocardium and an adequate runoff exists for this mode of
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