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About this book
Echocardiography has now reached its maturity and plays a key role in the clinical assessment of cardiac function. However, its ability to assess myocardial perfusion remains a clinical challenge.
Myocardial contrast echocardiography is a technique that uses microbubbles. These microbubbles remain entirely within the intravascular space and their presence in any myocardial region denotes the status of microvascular perfusion within that region. During the last few years, a large number of research studies have been dedicated to this topic. The latest developments in echocardiographic techniques and second-generation contrast agents allow for the potential assessment of myocardial perfusion and provide an accurate endocardial border delineation.
In the present book, these new echocardiographic techniques dedicated to the assessment of myocardial perfusion are described in detail by experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Tips and tricks are included, explaining thebasic concepts that are needed to understand and perform contrast echocardiography.
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"The use of contrast agents in echocardiography is becoming a routine clinical tool and this book aims to help those starting to use contrast agents as an ‘education tool in this field’. … this book provides an up-to-date introduction to contrast echocardiography as well as exciting glimpses into its future potential." (Professor D O Cosgrove, RAD Magazine, March, 2005)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contrast Echocardiography in Clinical Practice
Authors: José Luis Zamorano, Miguel Angel García Fernández
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2125-9
Publisher: Springer Milano
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-88-470-0237-1Due: 11 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-88-470-2174-7Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-2125-9Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 286
Topics: Cardiology, Imaging / Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound