Chronic Infarcts and Mimickers of Infarcts

Alastair Moore; Harold Goerne; Prabhakar Rajiah; Yuki Tanabe; Sachin Saboo; Suhny Abbara

doi:10.1016/j.rcl.2018.08.007

Chronic Infarcts and Mimickers of Infarcts

Radiol Clin North Am. 2019 Jan;57(1):57-65. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2018.08.007. Epub 2018 Oct 31.

Authors

Alastair Moore¹, Harold Goerne², Prabhakar Rajiah³, Yuki Tanabe³, Sachin Saboo³, Suhny Abbara³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-8896, USA. Electronic address: alastair.j.e.moore@gmail.com.
² Department of Radiology, Cardiovascular Imaging Service, IMSS Western National Medical Center, Belisario Dominguez 1000, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44340, Mexico; Cardiovascular Imaging Service, Imaging and Diagnosis Center (CID), Av. Americas 2016, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44610, Mexico.
³ Department of Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-8896, USA.

PMID: 30454817
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2018.08.007

Abstract

This article reviews the imaging manifestations of chronic myocardial infarction (MI) on computed tomography (CT) and the common mimickers of MI, clinically and on imaging. Several examples of the appearance of chronic MI, its complications, and mimickers of MI are shown on both routine and cardiac CT.

Keywords: Cardiac CT; Chronic MI; Chronic MI on cardiac CT; Chronic MI on routine CT; Complications of chronic MI; Dual-energy CT; Mimickers of MI; Pitfalls of cardiac CT.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Chronic Disease
Diagnosis, Differential
Humans
Myocardial Infarction / complications
Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
Prognosis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*