Serial contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates regression of hyperenhancement within the coronary artery wall in patients after acute myocardial infarction.

Ibrahim, T; Makowski, MR; Jankauskas, A; Maintz, D; Karch, M; Schachoff, S; Manning, WJ; Schömig, A; Schwaiger, M; Botnar, RM

doi:10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.12.029

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Title:: Serial contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates regression of hyperenhancement within the coronary artery wall in patients after acute myocardial infarction.
Document type:: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article
Author(s):: Ibrahim, T; Makowski, MR; Jankauskas, A; Maintz, D; Karch, M; Schachoff, S; Manning, WJ; Schömig, A; Schwaiger, M; Botnar, RM
Abstract:: OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to determine whether serial contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (CE-CMR) is useful for the characterization of tissue signal changes within the coronary vessel wall in patients after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). BACKGROUND: Inflammation plays a key role in the development of AMI. CE-CMR of the vessel wall has been found useful for the characterization of inflammatory tissue signal changes in patients with carotid artery stenosis, giant cell arteritis, or Takayasu's arteritis; however, it has never been serially performed in the coronary artery wall in patients with acute and chronic myocardial infarction using a gadolinium-based contrast medium and compared with systemic markers of inflammation. METHODS: CE-CMR using a T1-weighted 3-dimensional gradient echo inversion recovery sequence of the coronary artery wall and 0.2 mmol/kg of gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid was performed in 10 patients with AMI 6 days and 3 months after coronary intervention and in 9 subjects without coronary artery disease on invasive coronary angiography. Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) within the coronary artery wall was quantified in comparison with blood signal. RESULTS: Patients with AMI demonstrated a significantly increased coronary vessel wall enhancement 6 days after infarction compared with normal subjects (CNR 7.8 +/- 4.4 vs. 5.3 +/- 3.2, p < 0.001). Three months after infarction, CNR decreased to 6.5 +/- 4.7 (p < 0.03). This decrease paralleled declines in C-reactive protein. Angiographically normal segments showed no contrast changes, but CNR significantly decreased in stenotic segments, from 10.9 +/- 3.8 to 6.8 +/- 5.0 (p < 0.002), resulting in a reduction of enhanced segments from 70% to 25% (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Serial CE-CMR identified changes in spatial extent and intensity of coronary contrast enhancement in patients after AMI. This technique may be useful for the characterization of transient coronary tissue signal changes, which may represent edema or inflammation during the post-infarction phase. In addition, CE-CMR may offer the potential for visualization of inflammatory activity in atherosclerosis associated with acute coronary syndromes.
Journal title abbreviation:: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging
Year:: 2009
Journal volume:: 2
Journal issue:: 5
Pages contribution:: 580-8
Language:: eng
Fulltext / DOI:: doi:10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.12.029
Pubmed ID:: http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442944
Print-ISSN:: 1936-878X
TUM Institution:: I. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik (Kardiologie); Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin
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