Echocardiographic Ischemic Memory Molecular Imaging for Point-of-Care Detection of Myocardial Ischemia.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Noninvasive molecular imaging of recent ischemia can potentially be used to diagnose acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with high accuracy.
OBJECTIVES: The authors hypothesized that bedside myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) ischemic memory imaging could be achieved with phosphatidylserine microbubbles (MB
METHODS: A dose-finding study was performed in healthy volunteers (n = 17) to establish optimal MB
RESULTS: Based on dose-finding studies, 0.10 or 0.15 mL of MB
CONCLUSIONS: Molecular imaging with point-of-care echocardiography and MB
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