Application of contrast echocardiography in diagnosing cardiac tumors
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4181.2013.01.012
- VernacularTitle:造影超声心动图在心脏肿瘤诊断中的应用价值
- Author:
Fei YU
;
Leilei CHENG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Cardiac tumor;
Echocardiography;
Contrast echocardiography
- From:
International Journal of Biomedical Engineering
2013;(1):48-50,后插1
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Echocardiography plays an important role in diagnosing cardiac tumors and is helpful for subsequent treatment decision making.However,conventional echocardiography can hardly meet the clinical requirements of sufficient diagnosis,mostly due to the fact that it usually does little on identification of benign and malignant characters of tumors.Contrast echocardiography is a new technology using microbubbles as a contrast agent to trace the blood flow,which promotes the definition of endocardium lines and helps to reveal spaceoccupying abnormities in heart.Moreover,myocardial contrast echocardiography can be used to evaluate perfusions of intracardiac masses,and thus improves the accuracy of differential diagnosis enormously.
