Enhancement of Contrast Opacification for Echocardiographic Imaging of the Right Heart and Shunts
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Brief summary
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The study aims to answer whether the use of a mixture of blood and saline alone (limited air) provides the same degree of right-heart contrast enhancement as compared to the standard agitated saline (with air), during two types of echocardiograms.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02661529
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 100 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE) Procedure
- Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) Procedure
- Saline/Air Mixture Other
- Saline/Blood Mixture Other
Procedure · Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 105 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 2016 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Jul 2016 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jul 2016 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Oct 26, 2017
2016
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic in Rochester | Rochester | Minnesota | 55905 | — |
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- Last update posted Oct 26, 2017 · Synced Oct 17, 2026
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