Japanese Circulation Society

MIKAMO Lecture: New Developments in Echocardiography: Impact on Coronary Artery Disease
Harvey Feigenbaum, M.D.

Figure 4. A high frequency transthoracic echocardiogram compared with an ultra high frequency epicardial examination of the same patient at the time of cardiac surgery. The transthoracic echocardiograms on the left show the "lumps and bumps" along the walls of this left anterior descending artery. Similar intravascular lesions are demonstrated on the epicardial echograms on the right.