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Figure 12 Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy of Nuclear and Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Functional Recovery After Revascularization
Relationships between recovery of function after revascularization with contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance, and 2 thallium protocols optimized for viability detection: 1) rest-redistribution and 2) stress-redistribution-reinjection imaging are shown. Irrespective of the imaging modality applied, the data suggest that recovery of function after revascularization is a continuum and is coupled to the ratio of viable to scarred myocardium within dysfunctional myocardial segments. The extent of infarct size on CMR or percentage of thallium defect on SPECT correlated with decreasing likelihood of functional recovery after revascularization. Reprinted, with permission, from Dilsizian (88).
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