Simultaneous Evaluation of Infarct Size and Cardiac Function in Intact Mice by Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Contractile Dysfunction in Noninfarcted Regions Early after Myocardial Infarction

Zequan Yang, Stuart S. Berr, Wesley D. Gilson, Marie Claire Toufektsian, Brent A. French

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Abstract

Background-The objective of this study was to noninvasively determine the effects of reperfused myocardial infarction (MI) on regional and global left-ventricular (LV) function 24 hours after MI in intact mice with contrast-enhanced cardiac MRI and a single, gradient-echo pulse sequence. Methods and Results-Twenty-three mice received baseline MRI scans followed by either 60 minutes of coronary occlusion (MI group, n=15) or thoracotomy without occlusion (sham group, n=8). Gadolinium-DTPA-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) images were acquired 24 hours after surgery. Hearts were then excised for conventional infarct size determination via 2,3,5-triphenyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC) staining. In addition to infarct size, analysis of the MR images yielded left ventricular (LV) mass, LV end-systolic volume (LVESV), LV end-diastolic volume (LVEDV), LV ejection fraction (LVEF), cardiac output, and percent LV wall thickening (%WTh). Twenty-four hours after surgery, infarct size was 28.1±1.8% of LV mass by MRI and 27.5±1.7% by TTC (P=NS). Bland-Altman analysis revealed close agreement between the results obtained by the 2 methods. MI had little effect on LVEDV but caused a 98% increase in LVESV (from 11.3 to 22.4 μL, P

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1161-1167
Number of pages7
JournalCirculation
Volume109
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 9 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cardiac output
  • Cardiac volume
  • Magnetic resonance imaging
  • Myocardial contraction
  • Myocardial infarction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physiology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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