Contrast echocardiography

Active Ingredient: Sulfur hexafluoride

Indication for Sulfur hexafluoride

Population group: only adults (18 years old or older)

Sulfur hexafluoride is a transpulmonary echocardiographic contrast agent for use in adult patients with suspected or established cardiovascular disease to provide opacification of cardiac chambers and enhance left ventricular endocardial border delineation.

For this indication, competent medicine agencies globally authorize below treatments:

2 ml

Route of admnistration

Intravenous

Defined daily dose

2 - 2 mL

Dosage regimen

From 2 To 2 mL once every day

Detailed description

B-mode imaging of cardiac chambers, at rest or with stress: 2 mL.

Active ingredient

Sulfur hexafluoride

Sulphur hexafluoride is an inert, innocuous gas, poorly soluble in aqueous solutions. Sulphur hexafluoride is for use with ultrasound imaging to enhance the echogenicity of the blood, or of fluids in the urinary tract which results in an improved signal to noise ratio.

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