title: [Assessment of myocardial perfusion using myocardial contrast echocardiography--case report].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Chorób Serca i Naczyń Instytut Kardiologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olszowska
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hlawaty
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kostkiewicz
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Podolec
authors.forename: Wiesława
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tracz
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media; D004280:Dobutamine