Clinical applications of ultrasonic enhancing agents in echocardiography: 2018 American Society of Echocardiography guidelines update

TR Porter, SL Mulvagh, SS Abdelmoneim… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - Elsevier
The use of ultrasound enhancing agents (UEAs) has become an integral component of
echocardiography practice. Since the 2008 American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) …

Guidelines for performance, interpretation, and application of stress echocardiography in ischemic heart disease: from the American Society of Echocardiography

PA Pellikka, A Arruda-Olson, FA Chaudhry… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the 2007 publication of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) guidelines
for stress echocardiography, 1 new information has become available about the …

Clinical practice of contrast echocardiography: recommendation by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) 2017

R Senior, H Becher, M Monaghan… - European Heart …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Contrast echocardiography is widely used in cardiology. It is applied to improve image
quality, reader confidence and reproducibility both for assessing left ventricular (LV) …

Efficacy of noninvasive cardiac imaging tests in diagnosis and management of stable coronary artery disease

IR Mordi, AA Badar, RJ Irving… - Vascular health and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this review was to discuss the current literature regarding the utility of
noninvasive imaging in diagnosis and management of stable coronary artery disease (CAD) …

Severe coronary tortuosity or myocardial bridging in patients with chest pain, normal coronary arteries, and reversible myocardial perfusion defects

N Gaibazzi, F Rigo, C Reverberi - The American journal of cardiology, 2011 - Elsevier
We reviewed patients with normal or near-normal coronary angiograms enrolled in the
SPAM contrast stress echocardiographic diagnostic study in which 400 patients with chest …

Prognostic value of high-dose dipyridamole stress myocardial contrast perfusion echocardiography

N Gaibazzi, C Reverberi, V Lorenzoni, S Molinaro… - Circulation, 2012 - ahajournals.org
Background—The addition of myocardial perfusion (MP) imaging during dipyridamole real-
time contrast echocardiography improves the sensitivity to detect coronary artery disease …

Contrast stress echocardiography findings in myocardial bridging compared to normal coronary course, with and without coronary artery disease

E Guerra, L Bergamaschi, D Tuttolomondo… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Myocardial bridging (MB) correlation with ischemia remains a diagnostic
challenge. There is a lack of studies that have assessed MB using contrast stress echo and …

Patient outcome following 2 different stress imaging approaches: a prospective randomized comparison

TR Porter, LM Smith, J Wu, D Thomas, JT Haas… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
Objectives: The study sought to prospectively compare patient outcome after stress real-time
myocardial contrast echocardiography (RTMCE) versus conventional stress echo (CSE) …

Coronary flow velocity reserve reduction is associated with cardiovascular, cancer, and noncancer, noncardiovascular mortality

N Gaibazzi, E Picano, S Suma, S Garibaldi… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) measured in the left anterior descending
artery during high-dose vasodilator stress echocardiography interrogates both epicardial …