Superiority of the combination of blood and agitated saline for routine contrast enhancement

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 94-98

  Fan, S ^a   Nagai, T ^a   Luo, H ^a   Atar, S ^a   Naqvi, T ^a   Birnbaum, Y ^a   Lee, S ^a   Siegel, R J ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; AIR; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032998014     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(99)70120-3     Document Type: Article

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