Perflutren-Based Echocardiographic Contrast in Patients With Right-to-Left Intracardiac Shunts
Author(s) -
Ankur Kalra,
Gautam R. Shroff,
Darryl Erlien,
David T. Gilbertson,
Charles A. Herzog
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
jacc. cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1936-878X
pISSN - 1876-7591
DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.11.003
Subject(s) - intracardiac injection , right to left , medicine , left and right , contrast (vision) , cardiology , right heart , radiology , computer science , artificial intelligence , engineering , structural engineering , operating system
Use of second-generation perflutren-based echocardiographic contrast agents (perflutren) is currently contraindicated in patients with known right-to-left, bidirectional, or transient right-to-left intracardiac shunts (intracardiac shunts) according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This
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