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Access Medicine's Image of the Week: Myocardial Infarction on Echocardiography

From: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e: Chapter 236: Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging: Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and Magnetic Resonance/Computed Tomography Imaging

Julie Grishaw, ACNP

Senior Editor, McGraw-Hill Education

Published Sep 25, 2018

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Acute left anterior descending artery distribution myocardial infarction at end systole showing akinetic region (arrows).

An image of acute left anterior descending artery distribution myocardial infarction at and of systole shows an akinetic region as a concave curved, white structure.