Radiology, Vol 167, 129-133, Copyright © 1988 by Radiological Society of North America

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Acute myocardial ischemia: MR imaging with Mn-TP

PW Pflugfelder, MF Wendland, WW Holt, SC Quay, D Worah, N Derugin and CB Higgins
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143.

Cardiac-gated magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed in rats to determine the effects of manganese ethylenediaminetetraphosphonate (TP). Ten normal rats received Mn-TP in a dose of 50 mumol/kg through a tail-vein injection. Spin-echo MR images were obtained before and every 10 minutes after Mn-TP injection for 1 hour. Cardiac signal intensity (SI) increased more than 70% after Mn-TP injection and remained nearly unchanged 1 hour after injection. Myocardial T1 was 517 +/- 49 msec in eight control rats and 282 +/- 61 msec (P less than .001) in six rats 81 +/- 0 minutes after injection. Nine rats underwent occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery prior to MR imaging. Images were obtained before and 15, 30, and 60 minutes after Mn-TP injection. In normal myocardium, SI increased up to 82% and remained elevated for 1 hour. In ischemic myocardium, SI rose 11%, leading to a marked contrast between the two tissue zones. T1 was also different in the two regions: In normal tissue, it was 206 msec +/- 54; in ischemic tissue, 338 +/- 82 (P less than .001). With T1-weighted MR imaging, Mn-TP showed a potential for delineating the jeopardized area after acute myocardial ischemia.

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