Imaging manifestations of myocardial infarction on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Abstract

Acute myocardial infarction is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and the remodeling-type structural consequences that lead to chronic heart failure and other complications that result in the patient's systemic deterioration represent a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in different patients. . In this order of ideas, the implementation of early therapies favors the delay and / or non-appearance of these acute and chronic changes, being so that at present, cardioresonance allows the evaluation of the early and late changes of myocardial injury, such as As the non-enhancement of the ischemic areas, in acute and late phase, allows to evaluate the kinetic changes of the myocardial wall, as well as to determine the ejection fraction of the left ventricle, functionality of the sigmoid and semilunar valves, presence of pericardial effusion, flow rates, among others. Allowing the clarification of the structural scenario in the face of myocardial infarction and facilitating the clinician to implement the appropriate therapeutic and follow-up tools for each patient based on the imaging findings.