Contrast Echocardiography
Effect of streptozotocin-induced diabetes on myocardial blood flow reserve assessed by myocardial contrast echocardiography in rats
... with contrast echocardiography can successfully be applied for the non-invasive evaluation of cardiac per- fusion at rest and under hyperaemia in STZ-induced dia- betic ...
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The safety profile of perflutren microsphere contrast echocardiography during rest and stress imaging : results from an Australian multicentre cohort
... following contrast administration was also reduced to only those patients with pulmonary hypertension or unstable cardiopulmonary ...after contrast administration was removed completely, the statement ...
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Evaluation of coronary microcirculation by myocardial contrast echocardiography in patients of ST elevation myocardial infarction
... Methods: Total 50 consecutive patients of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) were taken study including recent STEMI (within 7 days). After all routine investigations patient underwent coronary angiography and ...
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Does contrast echocardiography induce increases in markers of myocardial necrosis, inflammation and oxidative stress suggesting myocardial injury?
... of contrast echocardiog- ...receive contrast agent only without ...different contrast agents because only Optison was used in this ...of contrast echocardiography than ...that ...
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Value of adenosine infusion for infarct size determination using real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography
... myocardial contrast echocardiog- raphy after a period of coronary ischemia and reperfusion, by exploiting the "no-reflow" state of necrotic tissue ...myocardial contrast echocardiography ...
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Classification of left ventricular size: diameter or volume with contrast echocardiography?
... without contrast, data is lacking from this cohort to compare volumes obtained from corre- sponding non-contrast ...with contrast; there is no good evidence to support its use for this ...
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Ablation lesions in Koch's triangle assessed by three-dimensional myocardial contrast echocardiography
... Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) has been extensively investigated for this purpose [2-6], but the reported results are ...myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) has been tested for ...
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Bedside myocardial perfusion assessment with contrast echocardiography
... of contrast echocardiography, extensively inves- tigated in several large multicenter trials [15–17], has been found to be well‐tolerated and safe in both non‐ critically ill and critically ill patients ...
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The Value of Contrast Echocardiography
... explain why several noncontrast images of our patients received superior grades to their contrast counterparts. Future studies on why this is happening and what can be done to aid visualization of the basal ...
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Feasibility of myocardial perfusion assessment with contrast echocardiography: can it improve recognition of significant coronary artery disease in the ICU?
... Forty patients, 70% female, mean age 59.8 (± 17), were included in the study of which six were confirmed to have significant CAD (15%), all by coronary angiography: two patients with right coronary artery ischaemia, one ...
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Estimation of cardiac output and pulmonary vascular resistance by contrast echocardiography transit time measurement: a prospective pilot study
... In an effort to reduce confounding sources of variability, this pilot study was limited to patients without evidence of structural right heart disease. We presumed that se- vere tricuspid regurgitation, severe pulmonary ...
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Quantification of resting myocardial blood flow velocity in normal humans using real-time contrast echocardiography. A feasibility study
... faster contrast replenishment after transient destruction, the evaluation of stress-to-rest ratios (the MBF velocity reserve) would be a more appropriate quan- titative approach to assess normal or abnormal ...
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Visualization of the intracavitary blood flow in systemic ventricles of Fontan patients by contrast echocardiography using particle image velocimetry
... Thus far, heart function has been previously evaluated in echocardiography [14,15] using 2 dimensions mea- surements (e.g. LVEDd, Simpson EF, etc.), Doppler blood flow patterns, tissue velocity imaging (e.g. E’, ...
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A large left ventricular pseudoaneurysm in Behçet's disease: a case report
... In our patient the pseudoaneurysm presented with non- specific symptoms and signs. Thus, such a diagnosis was highly unlikely before getting the results of imaging. Vari- ous imaging methods have been used to diagnose ...
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Systematic Evaluation of Current Possibilities to Determine Left Ventricular Volumes by Echocardiography in Patients after Myocardial Infarction
... and contrast echocardiography were performed in all ...native echocardiography were compared to the results of LV opacification (LVO) imaging for analysis in mono-, bi- and triplane data sets using ...
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Contrast stress echocardiography in hypertensive heart disease
... disease. Contrast stress echocardiography is particularly suited to detect myocardial ...a contrast agent should be added during stress echocardiography when 2 or more left ventricular ...
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The usefulness of contrast during exercise echocardiography for the assessment of systolic pulmonary pressure
... It is now recommended in the evaluation of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Physical activity is severely restricted in patients with PAH, being exertional dypnea the most typical symptom. Exercise stress ...
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Coronary Flow Reserve in the Remote Myocardium Predicts Left Ventricular Remodeling Following Acute Myocardial Infarction
... myocardial contrast echocardiography RT-MCE was performed in three apical views (apical 4-, 2-, and 3-chamber) one week following PCI using low- power continuous, power-modulation MCE in a mechani- cal ...
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ACC AHA ASE 2003 Guideline Update Echocardiography summary article JACC.pdf
... DSE indicates dobutamine stress echocardiography (dobutamine infused at both low and high doses); CAD, coronary artery disease; LV, left ventricular; Ref. reference number; Stress, DSE protocol used for ...
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Diagnostic value of harmonic transthoracic echocardiography in native valve infective endocarditis: comparison with transesophageal echocardiography
... with p < 0.001) was detected. [18] Our population is more representative however of those patients in the intermedi- ate pretest category of IE, who are most likely to benefit from screening echocardiography. ...
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