19/01/2009

New scan could tell the story behind heart attacks

In response to a study – funded partly by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) - published today in the journal Radiology, which for the first time shows bleeding inside the heart after people have suffered a heart attack, Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director at the BHF said:

“For centuries we have relied on pathologists undertaking post mortems to tell us what has happened inside damaged tissues. The power of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is that it can look inside organs of living patients without the need for an operation. We are now at the start of the process of understanding what this information is telling us.”