Imaging heart repair following a heart attack
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Imaging cardiac repair following myocardial infarction using hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance imaging
IRAS ID
192843
Contact name
Damian Tyler
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Oxford
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Following a heart attack, the body initiates an intricate set of processes to reinforce the damaged area of heart muscle. We currently have no good way of measuring these repair processes, though work in laboratories suggests that an advanced new magnetic resonance scanning technique, hyperpolarized magnetic resonance, could do this. We are therefore performing a study of hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging in people who have had a recent heart attack. We plan to ask 10 people who have had a recent heart attack treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford to take part, and to undergo up to 4 MRI scans over 2 months. We hope that by being able to assess the repair processes non-invasively that it will be possible to improve our understanding of heart attacks. The work is funded by the NIHR Oxford BRC and the BHF.
REC name
South Central - Oxford B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/SC/0146
Date of REC Opinion
19 Apr 2016
REC opinion
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