@article{QIMS21367,
author = {Yuanbo Feng and Bianca Hemmeryckx and Liesbeth Frederix and Marleen Lox and Jun Wu and Ward Heggermont and Hua Rong Lu and David Gallacher and Raymond Oyen and H. Roger Lijnen and Yicheng Ni},
title = {Monitoring reperfused myocardial infarction with delayed left ventricular systolic dysfunction in rabbits by longitudinal imaging},
journal = {Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery},
volume = {8},
number = {8},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: An experimental imaging platform for longitudinal monitoring and evaluation of cardiac morphology-function changes has been long desired. We sought to establish such a platform by using a rabbit model of reperfused myocardial infarction (MI) that develops chronic left ventricle systolic dysfunction (LVSD) within 7 weeks.
Methods: Fifty-five New Zeeland white (NZW) rabbits received sham-operated or 60-min left circumflex coronary artery (LCx) ligation followed by reperfusion. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI), transthoracic echocardiography (echo), and blood samples were collected at baseline, in acute (48 hours or 1 week) and chronic (7 weeks) stage subsequent to MI for in vivo assessment of infarct size, cardiac morphology, LV function, and myocardial enzymes. Seven weeks post MI, animals were sacrificed and heart tissues were processed for histopathological staining.
Results: The success rate of surgical operation was 87.27%. The animal mortality rates were 12.7% and 3.6% both in acute and chronic stage separately. Serum levels of the myocardial enzyme cardiac Troponin T (cTnT) were significantly increased in MI rabbits as compared with sham animals after 4 hours of operation (P},
issn = {2223-4306}, url = {https://qims.amegroups.org/article/view/21367}
}