Pulmonary transit of echocontrast agents during mechanical ventilation: A clinical transthoracic echocardiographic study

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 395-401

  Bilotta, Federico ^a,c   Agati, Luciano ^a   Fiorani, Laura ^b   Madonna, Mariapina ^a   Pinto, Giovanni ^b   Rosa, Giovanni ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intraoperative organ perfusion; Levovist; Neuroanesthesia; Sono Vue; Ultrasound contrast agents

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; SHU 508; SONOVUE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISKECTOMY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG; MALE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

EID: 18744373032     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.04084.x     Document Type: Article

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