Experimental Study on Retroperitoneal Artery Bleeding with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound》.pdfVIP

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 46, No. 6, pp. e167–e172, 2014 Copyright 2014 Elsevier Inc. Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0736-4679/$ - see front matter /10.1016/j.jemermed.2013.08.074 Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RETROPERITONEAL ARTERY BLEEDING WITH CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASOUND Pei Zhou, PHD, Huijuan Xiang, MD, Heng Zhou, MD, Siyuan Zhan, MD, Wen Zhou, MD, Li Zhou, MD, and Jianhua Fan, MD Department of Ultrasound, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, Wuhan, Hubei, China Reprint Address: Pei Zhou, PHD, Department of Ultrasound, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, Wuluo Road 627, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China , Abstract—Background: We lack noninvasive and effec- , Keywords—contrast-enhanced ultrasound; retroperito- tive methods for evaluating origin of pelvic hemorrhage. neum; artery; hemorrhage Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) may be a prospec- tive method. Objective: We aimed to investigate the diag- nostic value of CEUS on external iliac artery (EIA) INTRODUCTION bleeding in rabbits. Methods: Fourteen rabbits were evenly divided into small- and big-crevasse groups. EIAs of rabbits Deadly bleeding in