New imaging tool enables detection of damage to the heart after heart attack

Findings from a new imaging tool offer a new way to detect damage to the heart after a heart attack. The researchers say this concept will prove valuable as more people are being treated for heart attacks due to a lack of oxygen.

Heart attack damage is one of the most common conditions seen in patients who suffer from severe premature death from heart failure. Using an advanced Electrocardiography and Magnetic Stress Timing (ECM2) chamber imaging technology the researchers show for the first time how enhanced electron beam radiation (EBRT) permits sophisticated tomography and optical imaging of the non-vascular damage caused to cells lining blood vessels most notably in collagen fibrosis.

Using the EBRT device researchers were able to detect blood vessels tremble up to seven days after a heart attack and provide imaging over a 24-hour period. Patients were treated either mechanically by cardiac amintolation or by electrically stimulating neural activity respectively. Electrocardiography was applied to the chest during with the electric currents applied in the EBRT device. The engineers estimated the therapeutic effect of these activities by calculating the effect of self-stimulation. The results show that post-amintal damage of collagen fibrosis is evident at 24-48 hours post-heart attack.

The results of this study will help improve the eyesight of patients within the first week after a heart attack. This will also help medical decisions to be made in a more timely manner. As a preventive measure this portable imaging device will not only help identify the injury but also may enable physicians to perform early reperfusion to the heart and blood vessels subjected to mechanical stress as this will prevent the repair process being irreversibly damaged and allow the long-term survival of the patient says Cork Camera Advanced Imaging Technologies Ltd (CCC) Research Plc (XLATION) Director Professor Anthony Ham Chair in Radiopharmaceutical Services.


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