Contrast-enhanced ultrasound with conventional ultrasound diagnosis of varying degrees of arterial stenosis Comparative Analysis.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Contrast-enhanced ultrasound with conventional ultrasound diagnosis of varying degrees of arterial stenosis Comparative Analysis Author: Qiu-Ying Liu, Ren Weidong, Han Jin Jiang, Chen Chih-Bo, Xu Zhan-Wu [Abstract] Objective: To compare contrast-enhanced ultrasound and two-dimensional, color Doppler, spectral Doppler to determine varying degrees of accuracy of arterial stenosis. Methods: 30 rabbit abdominal aorta using needles made legal control line bundle different levels of arterial narrow model, while using conventional ultrasonography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound measurement of diameter stenosis rates, respectively, to digital subtraction angiography (DSA) as the standard, the diagnostic accuracy of different methods to determine the rate and compare the reproducibility of the ultrasound indicators. Results: all Methods and results of diagnostic DSA rates high to low Sort by order of Ultrasound amp;quot;Spectrumamp;quot; Color Doppler amp;quot;two-dimensional; injection of contrast agent at different degree of stenosis when the stenosis at the upper segment with a narrow peak systolic velocity (PSV) than those in pre-contrast to accelerate, but the velocity ratio (SVR) was no significant difference before and after angiography, SVR1 with SVR2 the diagnostic rate was no significant difference; contrast the rate of diameter stenosis after the inter-observer consistency coefficient of severe stenosis in the high - to other ultrasonic methods. Conclusion: Ultrasound imaging of the degree of stenosis determined artery stenosis, high accuracy and inter-observer consistency, and can be used in clinical diagnosis of arterial stenosis and follow-up. [Keywords:] Ultrasonography; contrast agent; artery stenosis 0 Introduction Atherosclerosis, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, vasculitis, vascular trauma endures peripheral arterial disease is the clinical common diseases, due to the main function of peripheral arteries transport bl