Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world,
despite the rate having significantly declined over the past decade. The aim of this review is
to consider the emerging diagnostic and clinical utility of cardiac MRI in patients with recent
AMI. Cardiac MRI has high reproducibility and accuracy, allowing detailed functional
assessment and characterisation of myocardial tissue. In addition to traditional measures
including infarct size (IS), transmural extent of necrosis and microvascular obstruction …