Is hemorrhage in acute reperfused myocardial infarction a new marker for the severity of tissue injury?
Reperfusion injury in myocardial infarction leads to microvascular obstruction, which can occur with or without gross reperfusion hemorrhage. The incidence and implications of reperfusion hemorrhage are not well investigated. A recently described in vivo imaging approach using T2*-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance can help investigate the pathophysiology of reperfusion hemorrhage in vivo.
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