Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound as a Screening Tool for Kidney Cancer in Patients With Von-Hippel Lindau

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Critically ill or medically unstable or in an intensive care setting and whose critical course during the observation period would be unpredictable
• •2. Known hypersensitivity to sulfur hexafluoride or to any component of perflutren lipid (Definity®) or sulfur hexafluoride (Lumason®)
• •3. Right to left shunt, severe pulmonary hypertension (Pulmonary artery pressure \>90mmHg), or adult respiratory distress syndrome
• •4. Active cardiac disease including any of the following:
• •A. Severe congestive heart failure (class IV in accordance with the classification of the New York Heart Association) B.Unstable angina. C.Symptomatic arrhythmia (i.e. tachycardia, bradycardia, supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, atrial flutter or fibrillation).
• •D.Myocardial infarction within 14 days prior to the date of proposed microbubble administration.
• •5. Has any other medical condition or other circumstances that would significantly decrease the chances of obtaining reliable data or of achieving the study objectives such as:
• •* Mental illness
• •* Drug abuse
• •6. Female patient who is pregnant or lactating
• •7. Obesity that limits obtainment of acceptable images