High Frame Rate Ultrasound in Heart Disease Assessment

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Conditions studied: Coronary Artery Disease

In brief

The study will compare standard ultrasound images to high frame rate ultrasound images in patients with heart disease or with a low risk of heart disease to see if a higher frame rate of ultrasound adds to the information obtained from standard ultrasound.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03850015

Run by

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust

People needed

25

Starts

2022-02-01

Expected to finish

2025-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-05-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to undertake pharmacological stress, ie previously known intolerance to dipyridamole;
• Moderate or Severe aortic or mitral regurgitation or severe mitral stenosis;
• Significant pulmonary disease like severe COPD or pulmonary fibrosis;
• Atrial fibrillation;
• Inability to provide informed consent;
• Pregnancy and lactation;
• Known allergy to Sonovue
• Patients with second and third degree heart block, unless they have a pacemaker fitted
• Systolic BP < 90
• Known Myasthenia Gravis
• Bronchial asthma

Where it is running

• London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust — Harrow, Middx, United Kingdom (enrolling)

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