Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Iron imaging in myocardial infarction reperfusion injury

  • Brianna F. Moon,
  • Srikant Kamesh Iyer,
  • Eileen Hwuang,
  • Michael P. Solomon,
  • Anya T. Hall,
  • Rishabh Kumar,
  • Nicholas J. Josselyn,
  • Elizabeth M. Higbee-Dempsey,
  • Andrew Tsourkas,
  • Akito Imai,
  • Keitaro Okamoto,
  • Yoshiaki Saito,
  • James J. Pilla,
  • Joseph H. Gorman,
  • Robert C. Gorman,
  • Cory Tschabrunn,
  • Samuel J. Keeney,
  • Estibaliz Castillero,
  • Giovanni Ferrari,
  • Steffen Jockusch,
  • Felix W. Wehrli,
  • Haochang Shou,
  • Victor A. Ferrari,
  • Yuchi Han,
  • Avanti Gulhane,
  • Harold Litt,
  • William Matthai,
  • Walter R. Witschey

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16923-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Restoration of coronary blood flow after a heart attack may lead to reperfusion injury and pathologic iron deposition. Here, the authors perform magnetic susceptibility imaging showing its association with iron in a large animal model of myocardial infarction during wound healing, and showing feasibility in acute myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.