Contrast echocardiography

MJ Stewart - Heart, 2003 - heart.bmj.com
echocardiography and we stand on the threshold of myocardial contrast echocardiography
as a tool for routine clinical use in the assessment of the patient with ischaemic heart disease

Contrast echocardiography: current and future applications

SL Mulvagh, AN DeMaria, SB Feinstein… - … of Echocardiography, 2000 - Elsevier
… The purpose of this paper is to review recent developments in contrast echocardiography
nonischemic heart disease. Other future potential applications of contrast echocardiography, …

The clinical applications of contrast echocardiography

R Olszewski, J Timperley, S Cezary… - … of Echocardiography, 2007 - academic.oup.com
… techniques to learn, but it has been also been shown to have a high sensitivity and
specificity for coronary heart disease. Currently it remains an entirely subjective assessment of …

Myocardial contrast echocardiography in coronary artery disease

L Pérez de Isla, JL Rodrigo, C Almería… - … of Echocardiography, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… The development of new contrast agents and new tools for … contrast echocardiography
(MCE) has led to a new field of applications for patients suffering from ischemic heart disease. …

Contrast echocardiography

BA Kaufmann, K Wei, JR Lindner - Current problems in cardiology, 2007 - Elsevier
Myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) is a noninvasive imaging technique that relies
on the ultrasound detection of microbubble contrast agents. These agents are confined to …

Clinical applications of contrast echocardiography

P Colonna, C Cadeddu, L Chen, S Iliceto - American Heart Journal, 2001 - Elsevier
Contrast echocardiography to assess myocardial perfusion Myocardial contrast echocardiography
(MCE) has been used to study myocardial perfusion in the course of ischemia and …

Comparison of myocardial contrast echocardiography and low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography in predicting recovery of left ventricular function after …

CR DeFilippi, DWL Willett, WN Irani, EJ Eichhorn… - Circulation, 1995 - Am Heart Assoc
echocardiography (DSE) has been used to predict recovery of regional myocardial function
in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease… by myocardial contrast echocardiography (…

Contrast echocardiography: evidence for clinical use

VK Bhatia, R Senior - Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 2008 - Elsevier
… with heart disease. For example, the bioeffects of cavitation that may cause vascular injury
and lysis of blood cells have been shown in animal and in vitro models. The most frequently …

Contrast two-dimensional echocardiography in congenital heart disease: techniques, indications and clinical utility

GF Van Hare, NH Silverman - Journal of the American College of …, 1989 - Elsevier
Contrast echocardiography continues to be a useful technique in the diagnosis of a wide
spectrum of congenital heart disease, … complications of contrast echocardiography in our series. …

Enhanced visualisation of the right ventricle by contrast echocardiography in congenital heart disease

AE Van den Bosch, FJ Meijboom… - … of Echocardiography, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… studied with contrast echocardiography. Especially in congenital heart disease, assessment
of … In these patients echocardiographic imaging is challenging. The acoustic window is often …