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Manganese-enhanced MRI of acute cardiac ischemia and chronic infarction in pig hearts: kinetic analysis of enhancement development.

Mitral annular velocity by Doppler tissue imaging for the evaluation of atrial stunning after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation.

[Cardiomyocytic dedifferentiation, hibernation, and apoptosis are possible factors of progressive diabetic cardiomyopathy].

Prediction of functional outcome in stunned myocardium after myocardial infarction using BMIPP and tetrofosmin imaging.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for detection of myocardial viability in chronic ischemic left ventricular dysfunction.

Treating myocardial stunning randomly, with either propofol or isoflurane following transient coronary occlusion and reperfusion in pigs.

The influence of heart failure self-care on health outcomes: hypothetical cardioprotective mechanisms.

Vagal enhancement as evidence of residual ischemia after inferior myocardial infarction.

Pharmacokinetic modeling of delayed gadolinium enhancement in the myocardium.

"Apical ballooning" - what is the cause?

Exercise-induced ventricular dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: stunning by any other name?

Have your cake and eat it? Insulin strengthens the stunned heart.

Myocardial recovery after hypoxia: stunning recovery.

Benefits of percutaneous coronary revascularization in patients with adequately collateralized chronic total occlusions.

Estimation of regional myocardial mass at risk based on distal arterial lumen volume and length using 3D micro-CT images.

Integrated PET/CT in the assessment of etiology and viability in ischemic heart failure.

Time course of functional recovery after revascularization of hibernating myocardium: a contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance study.

Identification of hibernating myocardium with myocardial contrast echocardiography: comparison with late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance.

Lack of pathologic Q waves: a specific marker of viability in myocardial hibernation.

Reversible 18-FDG-uptake defects on myocardial PET: Is this myocardial resurrection?