Figure 5:

Graph shows TSC values in MI, adjacent LV tissue, and remote LV tissue as a function of infarct age (in days) in the 17 patients in whom infarct age was known. Mean TSC values measured in infarcted myocardium in each of 20 patients, in remote noninvolved myocardium in 17 patients, and in adjacent myocardial regions in the eight subjects who had quantifiable adjacent regions and known infarct age are shown. Some of the older MIs still showed a large increase in TSC relative to the remote LV, and some younger MIs did not show a substantial elevation in TSC. Consequently, the correlation between MI TSC and infarct age was poor (Pearson product moment r= 0.09).