Long-Term Incremental Prognostic Value of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance After ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Study of the Collaborative Registry on CMR in STEMI.

Objectives: This study sought to investigate whether early post-infarction cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) parameters provide additional long-term prognostic value beyond traditional outcome predictors in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients.

Background: Long-term prognostic significance of CMR in STEMI patients has not been assessed yet.

Methods: This was a longitudinal study from a multicenter registry that prospectively included STEMI patients undergoing CMR after infarction.

[Coronary artery ectasia: etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment].

Coronary ectasia is a dilation of coronary arteries, angiographically defined if the diameter of the artery is ≥ 1.5 times greater than that of the intact adjacent vascular segment. An association has been found between coronary artery ectasia and a broad spectrum of different diseases, first of all atherosclerotic coronary artery disease.