Feasibility of continuous venous infusion of SonoVue for qualitative assessment of reversible coronary perfusion defects in stress myocardial contrast echocardiography

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 473-481

  Yip, Gabriel W ^a   Chandrasekaran, Krishnaswamy ^a   Miller, Todd D ^a   Hagen, Mary E ^a   Langins, Andrew P ^a   Khandheria, Bijoy K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Dipyridamole stress testing; Myocardial perfusion; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

DIPYRIDAMOLE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SONOVUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SESTAMIBI; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0346959654     PISSN: 01679899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CAIM.0000004263.46151.9d     Document Type: Article

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