Administration of an intravenous perfluorocarbon contrast agent improves echocardiographic determination of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction: Comparison with cine magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1426-1432

  Hundley, W Gregory ^a,b   Kizilbash, Ali M ^a   Afridi, Imran ^a   Franco, Fatima ^a   Peshock, Ronald M ^a   Grayburn, Paul A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST BAPTIST HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; PERFLUOROPENTANE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROCARBONS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0032213369     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00409-4     Document Type: Article

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