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Contrast Echocardiography: Clinical Utility
Author(s) -
Maurer Gerald
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2000.tb01192.x
Subject(s) - contrast (vision) , microbubbles , medicine , pace , intensive care medicine , radiology , cardiology , computer science , ultrasound , artificial intelligence , geodesy , geography
This article reviews the advances made by the echocardiography contrast agents from their first appearance in the early 1970s with homemade preparations up to the new generation of transpul‐monary contrast agents made of small microbubbles capable of transversing the lung's capillary bed. The great progress in contrast agent development has kept pace with the progress made by echocar‐diographic equipment, thus making the study of myocardial perfusion in the clinical settings a near‐future reality. This article also discusses the medical need that myocardial contrast echo has the potential to satisfy.