Contrast echocardiography: evidence-based recommendations by European Association of Echocardiography.
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.
Senior
Roxy
R
Department of Cardiology, Northwick Park Hospital, Imperial College, London, Harrow HA1 3UJ, UK. roxysenior@cardiac-research.org
Becher
Harald
H
Monaghan
Mark
M
Agati
Luciano
L
Zamorano
Jose
J
Vanoverschelde
Jean Louis
JL
Nihoyannopoulos
Petros
P
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