Intramyocardial Hemorrhage: An Enigma for Cardiac MRI?

Table 1

Study	Type of study		IMH (%)	Time after MI	MVO (mean %)	IMH assessment	Follow-up	End point
Kidambi A et al. [26]; (2013)	Prospective	39	35	2 days	56	T2-weighted and T2^*	90 days	Infarct contractility
Kali et al. [27]; (2013)	Prospective	15	73	3 days		T2^*	6 months	Scar tissue
Kali et al. [28]; (2013)	Prospective	/	14	3 days		T2 STIR and T2^*	Unclear	Hemorrhage
Porto et al. [20]; (2007)	Prospective	52	23	4–7 days		T2 W	6 months	Infarct size myocardial salvage index MVO
Mather et al. [29]; (2011)	Prospective	48	25	2 days	63	T2 W and T2^*	3 months	LVEF, LVES QRS myocardial salvage infarct size
Eitel et al. [30]; (2011)	Prospective	346	35	3 days	43	T2-weighted	6 months	MACE: death, reinfarction congestive heart failure
Bekkers et al. [4]; (2010)	Prospective	90	43	5 ± 2 days	54	T2-weighted	103 ± 11 days	LV remodeling
Beek et al. [7]; (2010)	Prospective	45	44	5.1 ± 2.1 days	60	T2-weighted	4 months	Ejection fraction
Ganame et al. [6]; (2009)	Prospective	98	25	1 week	64	T2-weighted	4 months	LV Adverse remodeling
Ochiai et al. [31]; (1999)	Prospective	39	33	5.7 days	66	T2^*-weighted gradient-echo	1 month	LVEF infarct size
Asanuma et al. [32]; (1997)	Prospective	24	38	6 days	33	T2^*-weighted gradient-echo	31 days	Wall motion score