TY - JOUR
T1 - Differentiation of Recent and Chronic Myocardial Infarction by Cardiac Computed Tomography
AU - Nieman, Koen
AU - Cury, Ricardo C.
AU - Ferencik, Maros
AU - Nomura, Cesar H.
AU - Abbara, Suhny
AU - Hoffmann, Udo
AU - Gold, Herman K.
AU - Jang, Ik Kyung
AU - Brady, Thomas J.
PY - 2006/8/1
Y1 - 2006/8/1
N2 - Clinical use of cardiac computed tomography is rapidly expanding, and its purpose may reach beyond noninvasive coronary angiography. We investigated the ability of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography to differentiate between recent and long-standing myocardial infarction (MI). Contrast-enhanced coronary computed tomographic (CT) scans (Siemens Sensation 64) of patients with a recent MI (<7 days, n = 16), long-standing MI (>12 months, n = 13), and no MI (n = 13) were retrospectively evaluated. To anticipate transmural variation of myocardial perfusion and to neutralize image noise, a series of thin, overlapping slices was created in parallel alignment to the myocardial wall. Within each of these slices, a small region of interest was placed at a constant in-plane position to measure the CT attenuation (Hounsfield units [HU]) at consecutive transmural locations of injured and normal remote myocardium. In addition, wall thickness and the myocardial cavity were measured. Significantly lower CT attenuation values were found in patients with long-standing MI (-13 ± 37 HU) than in those with acute MI (26 ± 26HU) and normal controls (73 ± 14 HU, p <0.001). The attenuation difference between infarcted and remote myocardia was larger in patients with long-standing MI than in patients with recent MI (89 ± 41 and 55 ± 33 HU, respectively, p <0.001). In addition, long-standing MI was associated with wall thinning (p <0.01), and ventricular dilation (p <0.05), whereas recent MI was not (p >0.05). In conclusion, recent and long-standing MIs may be differentiated by computed tomography based on myocardial CT attenuation values and ventricular dimensions.
AB - Clinical use of cardiac computed tomography is rapidly expanding, and its purpose may reach beyond noninvasive coronary angiography. We investigated the ability of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography to differentiate between recent and long-standing myocardial infarction (MI). Contrast-enhanced coronary computed tomographic (CT) scans (Siemens Sensation 64) of patients with a recent MI (<7 days, n = 16), long-standing MI (>12 months, n = 13), and no MI (n = 13) were retrospectively evaluated. To anticipate transmural variation of myocardial perfusion and to neutralize image noise, a series of thin, overlapping slices was created in parallel alignment to the myocardial wall. Within each of these slices, a small region of interest was placed at a constant in-plane position to measure the CT attenuation (Hounsfield units [HU]) at consecutive transmural locations of injured and normal remote myocardium. In addition, wall thickness and the myocardial cavity were measured. Significantly lower CT attenuation values were found in patients with long-standing MI (-13 ± 37 HU) than in those with acute MI (26 ± 26HU) and normal controls (73 ± 14 HU, p <0.001). The attenuation difference between infarcted and remote myocardia was larger in patients with long-standing MI than in patients with recent MI (89 ± 41 and 55 ± 33 HU, respectively, p <0.001). In addition, long-standing MI was associated with wall thinning (p <0.01), and ventricular dilation (p <0.05), whereas recent MI was not (p >0.05). In conclusion, recent and long-standing MIs may be differentiated by computed tomography based on myocardial CT attenuation values and ventricular dimensions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.01.101
DO - 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.01.101
M3 - Article
C2 - 16860013
AN - SCOPUS:33745952230
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 98
SP - 303
EP - 308
JO - American Journal of Cardiology
JF - American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 3
ER -