Ultrafast myocardial contrast echocardiography shows early potential to evaluate CAD

Ultrafast/high frame rate myocardial contrast echocardiography

Conventional myocardial contrast echocardiography images on the left. Ultrafast/high frame rate myocardial contrast echocardiography images on the right. Images courtesy of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging and Gvinianidze et al.

Ultrafast MCE could go on to become a go-to treatment option for obstructive coronary artery disease, according to the authors of a new first-in-human clinical study.