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The ATI score (age-thrombus burden-index of microcirculatory resistance) determined during primary percutaneous coronary intervention predicts final infarct size in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a cardiac magnetic resonance validation study
EuroIntervention 2017;13:935-943 published online June 2017. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-17-00367
Giovanni Luigi De Maria1,2, MD; Mohammad Alkhalil1, BSc, MD; Mathias Wolfrum1, MD; Gregor Fahrni1, MD; Alessandra Borlotti1,3, PhD; Lisa Gaughran1, RN; Sam Dawkins1, MBBS, DPhil; Jeremy P. Langrish1, MD, PhD; Andrew J. Lucking1, MD, PhD; Robin P. Choudhury3,4, DM, FRCP; Italo Porto2, MD, PhD; Filippo Crea2, MD; Erica Dall’Armellina1,3, MD, DPhil; Keith M. Channon1, MD, FRCP; Rajesh K. Kharbanda1, MD, PhD; Adrian P. Banning1*, MBBS, MD
1. Oxford Heart Centre, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom; 2. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy; 3. Acute Vascular Imaging Centre, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, O
Aims: The age-thrombus burden-index of microcirculatory resistance (ATI) score is a diagnostic tool able to predict suboptimal myocardial reperfusion before stenting, in patients with ST-