Cardiovascular Imaging

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The Essentials in Contrast Echocardiography and Myocardial Perfusion
Mani Vannan, MBBS, MRCP, MRCPI and Anthony DeMaria, MD

Echocardiography has evolved as one of the most popular diagnostic imaging procedures for cardiac disorders. Since the 1960's, each decade brought forth new technologies. Today Contrast Echocardiography, utilizing improvements in imaging capabilities such as digital processing and color coding, continues to gain popularity as a valuable imaging application assessing cardiac function.

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Objectives

Objectives of this CME course:

  • Recognize contrast imaging applications
  • Identify pathology through case study review
  • Recognize EchoPac's Quantitative Contrast Analysis Package


Cardiovascular Imaging

"Now interestingly enough, we have persistent signal in the base of the septum, and a little bit in the lateral wall. And one of the issues we have, of course, is whether that represents tissue signal, whether represents blooming, or whether we just didn't destroy all the bubbles. So that very often we find it useful to go ahead and to do triple images. Every 4th beat, we have our fill frame, and then we have 2 destruction images, and we usually are able to get rid of the bubbles in that manner."

- Anthony DeMaria, MD
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
University of California at San Diego


Cardiovascular Imaging

"And here is the destruction frame. What this allows you to do is to recognize that there is destruction. It allows you to quantify the extent of the destruction regionally. And that is critical because in normals, we have established that there is heterogeneous destruction of microbubbles across the field. And that is important to realize."

- Mani Vannan, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Echocardiography
MCP Hahnemann University