Contrast Echocardiography in Clinical Practice

by Miguel A. García Fernández, Jose L. Zamorano, Miguel Ángel García Fernández, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 884702174X
• ISBN13: 9788847021747
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"