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Diagnosis of subacute cardiac rupture by contrast echocardiography.

Uno K, Takenaka K, Asada K, Ebihara A, Sasaki K, Komuro T, Nagai R, Motomura N, Ono M, Takamoto S

Department of Computational Diagnostic Radiology and Preventive Medicine, Hospital of the University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. yang-tky@umin.ac.jp <yang-tky@umin.ac.jp>

We report two cases of subacute cardiac rupture after myocardial infarction in which contrast echocardiography combined with intermittent pulsing technique was helpful to diagnose small leakage from left ventricle.

Published 13 November 2006 in J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 19(11): 1401.e9-1401.e11.
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