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KH der Elisabethinen Hospital, Linz, Austria

Both infusion and bolus adenosine are safe for stress myocardial contrast echocardiography

Published in Telemedicine Law Weekly, August 26th, 2006

Both adenosine infusion and adenosine bolus protocols are safe for myocardial contrast echocardiography in humans and can be used for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease.

According to a report from Austria, "This study was a head-to-head, intra-individual comparison of the diagnostic accuracy and side effect profile of bolus and infusion administration of adenosine for stress myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE)."

"Adenosine MCE was performed in 64 subjects, referred for stress thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for known or suspected CAD," wrote H.J. Nesser and colleagues at KH der Elisabethinen Hospital in...

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