title: Advances in myocardial contrast echocardiography and the role of adenosine stress.
abstract: Advances in contrast echocardiography hold promise for the routine assessment of myocardial perfusion. Continued progress may ultimately position myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) as an imaging modality that can provide comprehensive cardiac assessment-anatomic, physiologic, and pathophysiologic. Vasodilator stress with adenosine can play an important role in conjunction with MCE, particularly as it relates to the noninvasive evaluation of myocardial perfusion and coronary blood flow reserve. Adenosine pharmacologic stress testing may provide improved test performance through perfusion detection when compared with traditional use of dobutamine assessments of regional wall motion abnormalities.
authors.affiliation: Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. smulvagh@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Sharon L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Mulvagh
mesh_terms: D000241:Adenosine; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D004452:Echocardiography; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005080:Exercise Test; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D014665:Vasodilator Agents
chemical_list: D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D000241:Adenosine