title: [Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast in the left ventricle: apropos of 2 cases].
abstract: Two cases of spontaneous echocardiographic contrast in the left ventricle, using transthoracic echocardiography, are presented. One is due to a low-flow state in a patient with a dilated myocardiopathy. In the other we observed the echogenicity of a turbulent intracardiac blood flow across a mitral prosthesis. We considered the different theories that tried to explain the multiple origin of this "smoke".
authors.affiliation: Sección de Cardiología, Hospital San Agustín, Avilés.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barriales Villa
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Catalán Adivinación
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Manuel Rodríguez Blanco
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Möller Bustinza
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Barriales Alvarez
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Casares García
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
vernacular_title: Contraste ecocardiográfico espontáneo en el ventrículo izquierdo: a propósito de dos casos.