Expert Consensus Statement from the American Society of Echocardiography on Hypersensitivity Reactions to Ultrasound Enhancing Agents in Patients with Allergy to Polyethylene Glycol

Affiliations

• ¹ Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
• ³ Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.
• ⁴ Division of Immunology and Allergy, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
• ⁵ Maritime Heart Center, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.
• ⁷ Department of Pharmacy Practice, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.
• ⁸ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.