Coronary artery disease
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Coronary artery disease · Jan 1995
ReviewAssessment of myocardial perfusion in coronary artery disease using myocardial contrast echocardiography.
MCE has evolved over the past decade as a clinically useful technique for the assessment of myocardial perfusion in patients with coronary artery disease. At present, its applications are limited because of the necessity of injecting microbubbles directly into the arterial circulation. ⋯ The advent of ultrasound systems that provide a linear relationship between the tissue concentration of microbubbles and the video intensity will make the method truly quantitative. It is likely that MCE will replace nuclear cardiology for the assessment of myocardial dysfunction by the turn of the century in many patients with coronary artery disease.