Myocardial Perfusion and Contrast Echocardiography: Review and New Perspectives

The effect of coronary angioplasty on coronary flow reserve.

1988 • 346 citations

The behavior of sonicated albumin microbubbles within the microcirculation: a basis for their use during myocardial contrast echocardiography.

1989 • 276 citations

Assessment of myocardial perfusion abnormalities with contrast-enhanced two-dimensional echocardiography.

1982 • 236 citations

Assessment of regional myocardial blood flow with myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography

1989 • 178 citations

Assessment of myocardial perfusion in humans by contrast echocardiography. I. Evaluation of regional coronary reserve by peak contrast intensity

1988 • 129 citations

Myocardial contrast echocardiography in humans. II. Assessment of coronary blood flow reserve

1988 • 118 citations

Successful Left Ventricular Opacification Following Peripheral Venous Injection of Sonicated Contrast Agent: An Experimental Evaluation

1988 • 117 citations

Contrast echocardiography for evaluation of myocardial perfusion: Effects of coronary angioplasty

1986 • 108 citations

Myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography: Experimental examination at different coronary flow levels

1984 • 104 citations

Intraoperative cardioplegic contrast echocardiography for assessing myocardial perfusion during open heart surgery

1984 • 88 citations

Myocardial perfusion imaging by contrast echocardiography with use of intracoronary sonicated albumin in humans

1989 • 86 citations

Correlation of myocardial echo contrast disappearance rate (“Washout”) and severity of experimental coronary stenosis

1984 • 83 citations

Assessment of regional myocardial perfusion by contrast echocardiography. II. Detection of changes in transmural and subendocardial perfusion during dipyridamole-induced hyperemia in a model of critical coronary stenosis

1989 • 83 citations

Contrast echocardiographic estimation of regional myocardial blood flow after acute coronary occlusion.

1985 • 81 citations

Visualization of subendocardial myocardial ischemia with myocardial contrast echocardiography in humans.

1989 • 66 citations

Myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography: comparison of contrast disappearance rates in normal and underperfused myocardium.

1984 • 50 citations

Intraoperative perfusion contrast echocardiography

1990 • 45 citations

Digital signal and image processing in echocardiography

1985 • 45 citations

Quantitative assessment of the immediate results of coronary angioplasty by myocardial contrast echocardiography

1989 • 39 citations

Intraoperative demonstration of coronary collateral flow using myocardial contrast two-dimensional echocardiography

1990 • 37 citations

Success of internal mammary bypass grafting can be assessed intraoperatively using myocardial contrast echocardiography

1988 • 32 citations

Quantitation of myocardial perfusion by contrast echocardiography: Analysis of contrast gray level appearance variables and intracyclic variability

1989 • 30 citations

Myocardial risk area and peak gray level measurement by contrast echocardiography: Effect of microbubble size and concentration, injection rate, and coronary vasodilation

1988 • 27 citations

Artifactual regional gray level variability in contrast-enhanced two-dimensional echocardiographic images: Effect on measurement of the coronary perfusion bed

1985 • 27 citations

Effect of papaverine administration on myocardial echocontrast distribution

1987 • 10 citations

Evaluation of Reperfusion Hyperemia With Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography

1988 • 6 citations

Quantifying Changes in Regional Myocardial Perfusion with Aortic Contrast Echocardiography

1989 • 4 citations

Influence of intramyocardial blood volume in the quantitation of myocardial perfusion using external densitometric measurements

1990 • 2 citations

The unreliability of myocardial, contrast two-dimensional echocardiography in assessing the distribution of blood flow

1990 • 2 citations