Alcohol septal ablation using myocardial contrast echocardiography on a patient with iodine contrast allergy

Contrast echocardiography guidance for alcohol septal ablation of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

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Myocardial contrast echocardiography.

MCE has evolved from a laboratory tool to a clinical procedure. It would be wrong to consider it merely another tool for imaging of myocardial perfusion. As discussed, it allows physicians to bring physiology and pathophysiology to the bedside, providing a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of abnormal findings in individual patients. MCE can provide quantitative measurements tha...

3D Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography

Percutaneous Transluminal Septal Myocardial Ablation in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Results With Respect to Intraprocedural Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography

Background—Percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation (PTSMA) has been introduced as an alternative procedure for reducing the left ventricular outflow tract gradient (LVOTG) in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. We report on the acute and mid-term results in 91 symptomatic patients with respect to intraprocedural myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE). Methods and Results—P...

Quantifying myocardial perfusion using contrast echocardiography.

There is a complex relation between what can be seen using perfusion imaging techniques, and what can be measured.