Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute

Predicting Edema and Chronic Lesion Size

Drs. Dosdall, MacLeod, and Ranjan demonstrate late gadolinium enhancement-MRI done acutely after myocardial ablation can quantify edema in the tissue and correlate the acute MRI findings with chronic lesion formation.
Ghafoori E, Kholmovski EG, Thomas S, Silvernagel J, Angel N, Hu N, Dosdall D, MacLeod R, Ranjan R. Characterization of Gadolinium Contrast-Enhancement of Radiofrequency Ablation Lesions in Predicting Edema and Chronic Lesion Size. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 10(11), 2017.