To date, advances in medical treatment and reperfusion therapy led to markedly decreased morbidity and mortality rate in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Nevertheless, there is a deterioration of left ventricular systolic function or development of heart failure in 40-50% of surviving patients with AMI after the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and it is related to infarct size at the index procedure. Conventional methods of measuring the infarct size included electrocardiogram, peak cardiac enzyme, and echocardiography, but these do not indicate the exact irreversible tissue damage and only suggest indirect parameters. However, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) provides information on infarct size, microvascular obstruction, transmurality, and salvage index, and discriminative function between viable and non-viable myocardium with high spatial resolution. Also, magnetic resonance imaging is used as a gold standard for the evaluation of the myocardial remodeling index. However, it is not well known in which patients occur adverse remodeling for the myocardium and in which patients occur reverse remodeling. Therefore, the investigators sought to evaluate the clinical implication of CMR and to determine factors affecting the 6-month remodeling index assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging through the current registry.
To evaluate the clinical implication of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in patients with acute myocardial infarction~To determine factors affecting the 6-month remodeling index assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging