DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2403050740
Acute Myocardial Infarction: Safety of Cardiac MR Imaging after Percutaneous Revascularization with Stents1
Manesh R. Patel, MD,
Timothy S. E. Albert, MD,
David E. Kandzari, MD,
Emily F. Honeycutt, MBI,
Linda K. Shaw, MS,
Michael H. Sketch, Jr, MD,
Michael D. Elliott, MD,
Robert M. Judd, PhD and
Raymond J. Kim, MD
1 From the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center (M.R.P., T.S.E.A., M.D.E., R.M.J., R.J.K.) and Clinical Research Institute (M.R.P., D.E.K., E.F.H., L.K.S., M.H.S.), Duke University Medical Center, 2400 Pratt St, Durham, NC 27705. Received May 1, 2005; revision requested July 6; revision received July 27; accepted August 29; final version accepted November 4. M.R.P. supported in part by an American College of Cardiology/Merck Research Fellowship Award. T.S.E.A. supported in part by a Sarnoff Fellowship Award. R.M.J. supported in part by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant R01-HL63268. R.J.K. supported in part by NIH grant R01-HL64726.
Address correspondence to M.R.P. (e-mail: patel017{at}mc.duke.edu).

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Figure 1a: (a) Short- and (b) long-axis cardiac MR images obtained in a patient with a coronary stent. Note the stent in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (white arrow) and the areas of scar tissue from an anterior myocardial infarction (black arrow).
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Figure 1b: (a) Short- and (b) long-axis cardiac MR images obtained in a patient with a coronary stent. Note the stent in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (white arrow) and the areas of scar tissue from an anterior myocardial infarction (black arrow).
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Figure 2: Kaplan-Meier event-free estimates of death, revascularization, or nonfatal myocardial infarction.
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