Contrast Echocardiography in Clinical Practice

Echocardiography has now reached its maturity and plays a key role in the clinical assessment of cardiac function. However, its ability to assess myocardial perfusion remains a clinical challenge. Myocardial contrast echocardiography is a technique that uses microbubbles. These microbubbles remain e...

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Main Authors: Zamorano, Jose L., García Fernández, Miguel A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milano Springer Milan 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1 The Physiological Basis of Coronary Circulation -- 2 Microbubbles: Basic Principles -- 3 Organization of the Contrast Echocardiography Laboratory: Tips and Tricks -- 4 Quantification Methods in Contrast Echocardiography -- 5 Clinical Application of Quantitative Analysis in Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography -- 6 Contrast Echocardiography for Left Ventricular Opacification -- 7 Coronary Flow Reserve and Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography -- 8 Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography in the Assessment of Patient with Chronic Coronary Artery Disease -- 9 Myocardial Viability: Comparison with Other Imaging Techniques -- 10 Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography and Inflammatory Response -- 11 Myocardial Perfusion Imaging During Stress Using Contrast Echocardiography -- 12 Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography in Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 13 Can Echocardiography Provide Combined Assessment of Left Ventricular Function and Myocardial Perfusion? -- 14 From a Toy with Lots of Potential to a Useful Clinical Tool - The Oxford Way of Doing Contrast Echocardiography -- 15 Clinical Application of Contrast Echocardiography in Critically III Patients -- 16 Therapeutic Application of Ultrasound Contrast Agents 
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520 |a Echocardiography has now reached its maturity and plays a key role in the clinical assessment of cardiac function. However, its ability to assess myocardial perfusion remains a clinical challenge. Myocardial contrast echocardiography is a technique that uses microbubbles. These microbubbles remain entirely within the intravascular space and their presence in any myocardial region denotes the status of microvascular perfusion within that region. During the last few years, a large number of research studies have been dedicated to this topic. The latest developments in echocardiographic techniques and second-generation contrast agents allow for the potential assessment of myocardial perfusion and provide an accurate endocardial border delineation. In the present book, these new echocardiographic techniques dedicated to the assessment of myocardial perfusion are described in detail by experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Tips and tricks are included, explaining thebasic concepts that are needed to understand and perform contrast echocardiography