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Delineation of intracardiac shunts using contrast echocardiography
Amy Loyd1, Paulina Gorodin, Zheng Liu
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA.
Abstract:
Contrast echocardiography is useful to visualize the endocardial borders of the left ventricle and improve the signal intensity of spectral Doppler signals. It can also help to define intracardiac flow dynamics in complex situations. We report 2 cases where contrast echocardiography improved the delineation of complex shunts and also provided new information not available by conventional echocardiography.