Arlington Medical Resources (AMR)
Usage of Ultrasound Contrast Agents in Echocardiography Declined in the Second Quarter of 2008
Published in Cardiovascular Business Week, August 26th, 2008
Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of premier market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, finds that the usage of injectable perflutren microsphere ultrasound (micro-bubble) contrast agents, which help to evaluate heart wall motion, has declined in the second quarter of 2008 to 22 percent of the usage just two years earlier. Micro-bubble contrast agents are gas-filled microspheres injected intravenously to improve cardiac ultrasound scanning. In October 2007 the FDA placed a black box warning on ultrasound micro-bubble contrast agents after 10 deaths were reported following administration. Reports of 190 serious but non-fatal reactions were also...
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