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Detection and Quantification of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Myocardial Scintigraphy

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Advances in Noninvasive Cardiology

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 24))

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Detection and quantification of acute myocardial infarction were some of the most important goals in cardiology in recent years, since, in both acute and old myocardial infarction, morbidity and mortality are related to the extent of myocardial damage [1, 2, 3]. Furthermore, this has become particularly important because of new attempts for the treatment of acute infarction in the early stage [4]. In order to evaluate the success of therapeutic interventions it is necessary to get an estimate of infarct size as soon as possible. An ideal method should differentiate between normal myocardium, jeopardized tissue (which means myocardium that basically might be saved by interventions) and necrotic irreversibly damaged muscle. This has been shown experimentally by special staining methods in vitro, but so far not in vivo [5].

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Probst, P., Pachinger, O., Sochor, H., Ogris, E. (1983). Detection and Quantification of Acute Myocardial Infarction by Myocardial Scintigraphy. In: Meyer, J., Schweizer, P., Erbel, R. (eds) Advances in Noninvasive Cardiology. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6720-5_20

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