Prognosis is a definite important information provided by CMR. In left ventricular reconstruction the size of infarct can be used to assess the success of the procedure in advance. This has been shown by a group of Brazilian cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons lead by Ribeiro GC in the manuscript bellow, freely available in English and Portuguese in the link below:
Arq Bras Cardiol. 2009 Dec;93(6):564-70, 611-6.
Importance of the area of fibrosis at midterm evolution of patients submitted to ventricular reconstruction.
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