Building a Unified Mechanistic Insight Into the Bimodal Pattern of Edema in Reperfused Acute Myocardial Infarctions: Observations, Interpretations, and Outlook

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Aug 18;66(7):829-831. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.05.074.

Author

Rohan Dharmakumar¹

Affiliation

¹ Biomedical Imaging Research Institute and Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: rohandkumar@csmc.edu.

PMID: 26271066
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.05.074

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Keywords: acute inflammation; acute myocardial infarction; cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; ischemia/reperfusion injury; myocardial edema.

Publication types

Editorial
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MeSH terms

Animals
Edema / physiopathology*
Male
Myocardial Ischemia / physiopathology*
Myocardial Reperfusion / methods*
Myocardial Reperfusion Injury / physiopathology*