Comments on: Right Ventricular Involvement in Acute Left Ventricular Myocardial Infarction: Prognostic Implications of MRI Findings http://www.thepreparedminds.com/archives/1330 In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared minds. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:45:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jacobo Kirsch, MD http://www.thepreparedminds.com/archives/1330/comment-page-1#comment-1240 Jacobo Kirsch, MD Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:06:05 +0000 http://www.thepreparedminds.com/?p=1330#comment-1240 I enjoyed reading this paper! This will definetely make me look harder for RV involvement in cases of suspected MI (acute or chronic). I do have a question that I would like the authors to answer. In their methods they describe: "<em>Inversion time was adjusted manually between 200 and 260 milliseconds for optimal nulling of the signal of normal LV myocardium. If RV delayed enhancement was suspected at visual inspection, inversion time was optimized separately for RV and LV myocardium</em>." In the current study, how different were the TI values for each ventricle? I enjoyed reading this paper! This will definetely make me look harder for RV involvement in cases of suspected MI (acute or chronic).

I do have a question that I would like the authors to answer. In their methods they describe: “Inversion time was adjusted manually between 200 and 260 milliseconds for optimal nulling of the signal of normal LV myocardium. If RV delayed enhancement was suspected at visual inspection, inversion time was optimized separately for RV and LV myocardium.” In the current study, how different were the TI values for each ventricle?

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