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Contrast echocardiography (CE) is a sensitive and safe technique for the definition of congenital cardiac anomalies. We have used CE in 283 patients since 1980. To stabilize the microcavitations, 1–2-ml saline boluses were withdrawn from a bottle of normal saline—to which had been added approximately 0.1–0.5 ml of the patient’s blood obtained on the initial venoclysis using a 3-ml syringe. This contrast medium was then rapidly injected into an arm or scalp vein, a radial artery, or via a catheter into a central vein, artery, or cardiac chamber. There was no recognizable complication from CE in any of the patients studied via this technique.
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Lutin, W.A., Silverman, N.H., Enderlein, M. (1986). Contrast Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease: An Underutilized Technique. In: Doyle, E.F., Engle, M.A., Gersony, W.M., Rashkind, W.J., Talner, N.S. (eds) Pediatric Cardiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8598-1_17
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