Bio-effects of ultrasound contrast agents in daily clinical practice: Fact or fiction?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1190-1192

  Van Camp, Guy ^a   Droogmans, Steven ^a   Cosyns, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; FS 069; SONOVUE;

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; MICROBUBBLE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROBUBBLES;

EID: 34548312057     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm110     Document Type: Editorial

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