title: Advances in contrast echocardiography: intraoperative perfusion assessment.
abstract: Contrast ultrasound techniques provide on-line assessments of regional tissue perfusion. Intraoperative clinical studies of cardiac revascularization and renal transplantation have been performed and are currently under active clinical investigation. The potential to diagnose and manage patients through the use of contrast ultrasound techniques is just beginning to be realized. With continued development of the contrast agents and improved computer-aided software analyses programs, the future of the real-time perfusion imaging looks bright.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Illinois Hospital, University of Chicago Hospitals, Illinois.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Feinstein
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aronson
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006324:Heart Arrest, Induced; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging