[Assessment of myocardial perfusion using myocardial contrast echocardiography--case report].
A 58-year-old woman with symptoms of angina underwent coronary angioplasty, which showed critical narrowing of the right coronary artery (80%) and borderline narrowing of the left anterior descending coronary artery (50%). We decided to analyse myocardial perfusion in this patient to estimate the degree of atherosclerosis in the target arteries. She underwent myocardial contrast echocardiography at rest and during dobutamine stress. The examination showed a transient perfusion defect in the right coronary bed and in the left anterior descending coronary. A similar perfusion defect was revealed in scintigraphy. We carried out a successful two vessel percutaneous coronary revascularisation.
Olszowska
Maria
M
Klinika Chorób Serca i Naczyń Instytut Kardiologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie.
Hlawaty
Marta
M
Kostkiewicz
Magdalena
M
Podolec
Piotr
P
Tracz
Wiesława
W
D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D003287:Contrast Media; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D004280:Dobutamine; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged
D003287:Contrast Media; D004280:Dobutamine