Cavitation versus Degassing: In Vitro Study of the Microbubble Phenomenon Observed During Echocardiography in Patients with Mechanical Prosthetic Cardiac Valves - Concepedia

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Cavitation versus Degassing: In Vitro Study of the Microbubble Phenomenon Observed During Echocardiography in Patients with Mechanical Prosthetic Cardiac Valves

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2002

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Grégoire Girod, Andres Jaussi, Cédric Rosset, Philippe De Werra, Félix Hirt, Lukas Kappenberger

Echocardiography

Abstract

This in vitro study suggests that microbubbles observed during several hundred milliseconds after the opening of prosthetic cardiac valves are the result of degassing of CO(2) in blood rather than a cavitation phenomenon as suggested in the literature.