RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Assessment of the size of acute myocardial infarction II: electrocardiography and imaging methods
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 551
OP 557
VO 57
IS 6
A1 Bruschke, Albert V. G.
A1 van der Laarse, Arnoud
A1 van der Wall, Ernst E.
YR 1990
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/57/6/551.abstract
AB The electrocardiogram gives a reasonable estimate of infarct size but the confidence limits are wide, and the estimates are unreliable in inferior wall infarction. Infarct size also can be determined from perfusion scintigraphy, assessment of left ventricular dimensions, wall motion disturbances, and other characteristics of the left ventricular wall. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, particularly with contrast enhancement, has the greatest potential for accuracy.