Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Detects Endoleak after EVAR

Duplex ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound versus computed tomography for the detection of endoleak after EVAR: systematic review and bivariate meta-analysis.

INTRODUCTION Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) has become the 'gold-standard' imaging modality for surveillance following EVAR. However repeated CT causes cumulative contrast related renal injury. Duplex ultrasound (USS) and contrast-enhanced (non-nephrotoxic) duplex scanning (CEUS) are less invasive but considered less accurate than CT. The aim of this study was to determine the diagn...

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the follow-up of patients after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR): A pictorial review

Contrast-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound.

Compared to other imaging modalities, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has limitations in terms of image enhancement. However, with the availability of contrast agents in ultrasonography, EUS has evolved. Contrast-enhanced Doppler EUS (CD-EUS) enhances Doppler signals from vessels and is useful for characterizing lesions detected by EUS. Moreover, contrast-enhanced harmonic EUS (CH-EUS) with second-...

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound

1Department of Medical Ultrasound, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, No. 301, Yanchangzhong Road, Shanghai 200072, China 2Thyroid Institute, Tongji University School of Medicine, No. 301, Yanchangzhong Road, Shanghai 200072, China 3Central Ultrasound Department, Klinikum Siloah, KRH, Roesebeckstrasse 15, 30449 Hannover, Germany 4Department of Radiology, Tho...

Noninvasive Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Molecular Imaging Detects Myocardial Inflammatory Response in Autoimmune Myocarditis.

BACKGROUND Cardiac tests for diagnosing myocarditis lack sensitivity or specificity. We hypothesized that contrast-enhanced ultrasound molecular imaging could detect myocardial inflammation and the recruitment of specific cellular subsets of the inflammatory response in murine myocarditis. METHODS AND RESULTS Microbubbles (MB) bearing antibodies targeting lymphocyte CD4 (MBCD4), endothelial P...