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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 4, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(6):534-535; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi142
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Should contrast be routinely used for echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function? A matter of appropriateness

Thomas Buck* and Raimund Erbel

Department of Cardiology, West German Heart Center Essen, University of Duisburg—Essen, Hufelandstrasse 55, Essen 45122, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 201 723 4808; fax: +49 201 723 5408.E-mail address: thomas.buck@uni-essen.de

This editorial refers to ‘Assessment of systolic left ventricular function. A multi-centre comparison of cineventriculography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, unenhanced and contrast enhanced echocardiography’{dagger} by R. Hoffmann et al., on page 607

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Hoffmann et al.1 present data showing that contrast-enhanced echocardiography, compared with unenhanced echocardiography, provides more accurate determination of left ventricular ejection fraction and significantly improves the correlation with cineventriculography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Certainly, the most important question arising from this study is whether contrast injection should be routinely recommended for echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function, as suggested by the study results. The authors did not discuss this question, nor did they state any clinical implications, thereby leaving the question open to public discussion. We would like to offer the following considerations.

Because most heart diseases affect the left ventricle, assessment of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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