Fig. 4

Radial function. Wall thickening (WT) in percent (%) between end-diastole and end-systole demonstrated for each culprit vessel. Upper panel presents results for controls and patients with infarction in left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) territory, middle panel controls and patients with infarction in the right coronary (RCA) and lower panel presents results for controls and patients with infarction in the left circumflex (LCx) coronary artery territory. Black lines represent controls, red lines patients in the sub-acute phase after ST-elevation myocardial infarction and blue lines patients in the chronic phase after ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Comparison between chronic phase and controls: * = p < 0.05. ** = p < 0.01 *** = p < 0.001. Comparison between sub-acute and chronic phase † = p < .05 †† = p < 0.01 ††† = p < 0.001