Conflicting data exists on the usefulness of a perfusion stress test prior to reopening a chronically occluded coronary artery (CTO). We sought to test whether a stress MR may improve patient selection for Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) reopening over a conventional LGE study.
We evaluated the diagnostic consistency of a short inversion time (TI) Late Gadolinium Enhancement (LGE) sequence in the diagnostic work-up of recent onset heart failure of ischemic aetiology
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