title: Contrast echocardiography: evidence-based recommendations by European Association of Echocardiography.
abstract: This paper examines the evidence for contrast echocardiography, both for improving assessment of left ventricular structure and function compared with unenhanced echocardiography and for the identification of myocardial perfusion. Based on the evidence, recommendations are proposed for the clinical use of contrast echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Northwick Park Hospital, Imperial College, London, Harrow HA1 3UJ, UK. roxysenior@cardiac-research.org
authors.forename: Roxy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Senior
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Becher
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monaghan
authors.forename: Luciano
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Agati
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zamorano
authors.forename: Jean Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vanoverschelde
authors.forename: Petros
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nihoyannopoulos
mesh_terms: D003097:Collateral Circulation; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D004452:Echocardiography; D005060:Europe; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005080:Exercise Test; D053805:Fractional Flow Reserve, Myocardial; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012955:Societies, Medical; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left