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The detection of infarct-related viability is of clinical importance to plan therapeutic strategies in an individual patient because revascularisation of dysfunctional but viable myocardium may improve left ventricular function 18. Several imaging techniques were shown to be highly successful in detecting myocardial viability and these include angiographic 17, scintigraphic 5, echo-cardiographie 16 and magnetic resonance 1 techniques. This chapter will review the available evidence how easily obtainable information from the ECG can be used to diagnose myocardial viability and predict recovery of dysfunctional myocardium following revascularisation.
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Sechtem, U., Schneider, C.A. (2000). Diagnosis of Myocardial Viability: Contribution of the ECG. In: Osterhues, HH., Hombach, V., Moss, A.J. (eds) Advances in Noninvasive Electrocardiographic Monitoring Techniques. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 229. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4090-4_30
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