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Review
. 2004 Feb;90(2):137-40.
doi: 10.1136/hrt.2003.023101.

Fundamental concepts in myocardial viability assessment revisited: when knowing how much is "alive" is not enough

R J Kim  1 , D J Shah
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Review

Fundamental concepts in myocardial viability assessment revisited: when knowing how much is "alive" is not enough

R J Kim et al. Heart. 2004 Feb.
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Figure 1
Regional variation in the absolute amount of viable myocardium in a patient with a normal heart (A), and a patient (B) with a subendocardial inferior wall infarction. See text for details.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Cine and contrast enhanced MRI images of two patients (C and D) before coronary revascularisation and cine images two months after revascularisation (full motion cine images may be viewed at http://dcmrc.mc.duke.edu/heart/). See text for details.
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