A method of detecting and quantifying severity of myocardial perfusion defects with intravenous ultrasound contrast and breath holding during stress echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 411-422

  Porter, Thomas R ^a,b   O'Leary, Edward ^a   Silver, Mary ^a   Oehlke, Heidi ^a   Xie, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbubbles; Myocardial contrast; Pulmonary venous return; Respiration

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

ALBUMINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; DOBUTAMINE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FLUOROCARBONS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; RESPIRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038575230     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03078.x     Document Type: Article

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