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Nur Hayati Jasmin, May Zaw Thin, Robert D. Johnson, Laurence H. Jackson, Thomas A. Roberts, Anna L. David, Mark F. Lythgoe, Philip C. Yang, Sean M. Davidson, Patrizia Camelliti, Daniel J. Stuckey
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2003987 |
Journal | Advanced Science |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Accepted/In press | 2021 |
Published | 9 Jun 2021 |
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Early measurements of tissue viability after myocardial infarction (MI) are essential for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning but are challenging to obtain. Here, manganese, a calcium analogue and clinically approved magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent, is used as an imaging biomarker of myocardial viability in the first hours after experimental MI. Safe Mn2+ dosing is confirmed by measuring in vitro beating rates, calcium transients, and action potentials in cardiomyocytes, and in vivo heart rates and cardiac contractility in mice. Quantitative T1 mapping-manganese-enhanced MRI (MEMRI) reveals elevated and increasing Mn2+ uptake in viable myocardium remote from the infarct, suggesting MEMRI offers a quantitative biomarker of cardiac inotropy. MEMRI evaluation of infarct size at 1 h, 1 and 14 days after MI quantifies myocardial viability earlier than the current gold-standard technique, late-gadolinium-enhanced MRI. These data, coupled with the re-emergence of clinical Mn2+-based contrast agents open the possibility of using MEMRI for direct evaluation of myocardial viability early after ischemic onset in patients.
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