Myocardial Viability: What We Knew and What Is New
Figure 1
Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance images in the acute state (a) and chronic state (b), and cine images in the chronic state (c, diastole; d, systole) in Patient who sustained an anteroseptal myocardial infarction. The contractility of the anteroseptal wall was not improved in the chronic state in this patient (with permission from Ichikawa et al.(2005), Am Coll Cardiol, Elsevier Inc., [90]).
