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Figure 4

From: Cardiac CT and MRI guide surgery in impending left ventricular rupture after acute myocardial infarction

Figure 4

Short axis delayed enhancement inversion recovery MR image with phase correction after 55 minutes (SSFP-GRE) post intravenous gadolinium injection shows the large inferolateral and inferoseptal acute myocardial infarction (arrowheads) with a persistent large area of microvascular obstruction (*). The impending rupture site in the lateral left ventricular wall shows delayed enhancement of the thin overlying cover of infracted myocardium (arrow).

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