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Pilot contrast-free MRI reveals significantly impaired calf skeletal muscle perfusion in diabetes with incompressible peripheral arteries
Jie Zheng1, Sara Gharabaghi2, Ran Li1, Yongsheng Chen3, Hongyu An1, E Mark Haacke2, Mohamed A Zayed1, and Mary K Hastings1
1Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, 2MR Innovations Inc, Bingham Farms, MI, United States, 3Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
Patients with diabetes mellitus and incompressible arteries had significantly impaired exercise perfusion and reserve. The MR angiography and calcification imaging revealed diffuse type of calcification in tibial arteries of these patients.
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