Myocardial Contrast and Stress Echocardiography: New Frontiers

Stress echocardiography and myocardial contrast echocardiography in viability assessment.

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MINI-SYMPOSIUM Stress myocardial contrast echocardiography

E valuation of reversible ischaemia and understanding the physiological significance of known coronary lesions is one of the most important applications of functional cardiac testing. Myocardial perfusion abnormalities during stress are important predictors of clinical outcome and appear to be superior to the angiographic evaluation of the coronary anatomy alone. The classical ischaemic cascade...

New contrast agents and technologies for myocardial contrast echocardiography.

Myocardial contrast echocardiography is a new method for evaluating myocardial perfusion. However, it relies on the marriage of two evolving technologies; ultrasound contrast agents and ultrasound imaging instrumentation. To date, these technologies have only been available to a limited number of researchers throughout the world. Within the next 12 months, both agents and specialised ultrasound...

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