CMR measurements of myocardial infarct heterogeneity using MCLE and IR-FGRE: correlation with arrhythmia inducibility and severe ICD events in patients with ischemic heart disease

From: 15th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions Orlando, FL, USA 2-5 February 2012 Author details1-Imaging Research and Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, CanadaEMPTY2-Cardiology, St. Michael Hospital, Toronto, ON, CanadaEMPTY3-Cardiology, Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, CanadaEMPTY Supplemental Information: Background In addition to measures of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and clinical staging of heart failure, myocardial infarct (MI) heterogeneity including MI and peri-infarct gray-zone (GZ) has the potential to predict the occurrence of inducible sustained ventricular arrhythmia (VA) and spontaneous VA events after implantation of implantable defibrillator (ICD) in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD).