Contrast Echocardiography

• 1. An introduction to contrast echocardiography.- A. Physical principles and theoretic considerations.- 2. The source of echocardiographic contrast.- 3. Contrast agents for diagnostic ultrasound.- 4. Why capillary beds remove ultrasonic contrast.- 5. Ultrasonic studies during experimental decompression.- B. Clinical applications.- 6. Methodology in contrast echocardiography.- 7. Structure identification by contrast echocardiography.- 8. Spontaneous left ventricular microbubbles in patients with metallic mitral prosthetic valves.- 9. Contrast echocardiography of the left ventricle.- 10. Pulmonary wedge injections for the evaluation of left-to-right shunts.- 11. Factors affecting the success of attaining left heart echo contrast after pulmonary wedge injections.- 12. Echo contrast for the detection of atrial septal defects.- 13. Negative contrast echocardiography for the diagnosis of atrial septal defects.- 14. Contrast echocardiography in patent foramen ovale.- 15. Echo contrast studies in the early postoperative period after atrial septal defect closure.- 16. Two-dimensional contrast echocardiography in the study of ventricular septal defects.- 17. Contrast echocardiography for evaluation of right ventricular hemodynamics in the presence of ventricular septal defects.- 18. Contrast echocardiography in valvular regurgitation.- 19. Contrast echocardiography in persistent fetal circulation.- 20. Applications of contrast echocardiography for analysis of complex congenital heart disease in the newborn.- 21. Contrast echocardiography in the assessment of cyantic and complex congenital heart disease: peripheral venous, invasive, and unique applications.- 22. Contrast M-mode echocardiography, the suprasternal notch approach.- C. Future prospects.- 23. Determination of cardiac output by two-dimensional contrast echocardiography.- 24. Videodensitometric quantitation of left-to-right shunts with contrast echocardiography.- 25. Transmission of echocardiographic contrast through the lungs.- 26. Precision microbubbles for right side intracardiac pressure and flow measurements.- 27. Microbubble tracking with echo Doppler.- Index of subjects.- Index of authors.

'These two books address the current status of specialized clinical approaches and research echocardiography. Both volumes contain publications by clinicians as well as scientists and emphasize to the reader the importance of a stron clinician-scientist interaction in the performance of ultrasonic research. ... The publication of these books indicates the intensity of interest in expanding the horizons of echocardiography to provide quantitative data on cardiac function as well as structure.' The New England Journal of Medicine, 310:4 (1984)