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Cell therapy in myocardial infarction: emphasis on the role of MRI.

Eur Radiol

March 2008

Department of Radiology, University Hospital K.U.L., Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

Despite tremendous progress in myocardial infarct (MI) treatment, mortality rates remain substantial. Permanent loss of cardiomyocytes after ischemic injury, results in irreversible loss of myocardial contractility, reduction in ventricular performance, and may initiate the development of dilated heart failure. The discovery that pluripotent progenitor cells bear the capacity to differentiate to mature cardiac cells raised the hope of cell-based regenerative medicine.

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Computed tomography in paraprosthetic sigmoid fistula.

J Comput Assist Tomogr

November 1988

Department of Radiology, University Hospital K.U.L., Louvain, Belgium.

A patient with a paraprosthetic-sigmoid fistula following complicated aortic abdominal surgery is reported. Computed tomography confirmed the diagnosis by demonstrating inflammatory tissue around the left limb of the prosthesis in close contact with the sigmoid.

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