# OnCo record optison (drug). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/drugs/optison/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "optison" ;
  schema:name "Perflutren protein-type A microspheres (ultrasound contrast)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Optison"@en, "perflutren albumin microspheres"@en, "Optison" ;
  schema:description "Gas bubbles in a protein shell injected into a vein during a heart ultrasound to show the heart's pumping chamber more clearly."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/optison/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?event=overview.process&ApplNo=020899>, <https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=46bcf276-d423-408a-a410-f11383406a94>, <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/optison>, <https://atcddd.fhi.no/atc_ddd_index/?code=V08DA&showdescription=no> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "contrast-agents-gaps-2026-11", "diagnostic" ;
  onco:modality "Ultrasound contrast agent, albumin-shelled gas microbubbles for echocardiography (intravenous)" ;
  onco:approval "US 1997: Opacification of the left ventricle in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms", "EU 1998: Transpulmonary echocardiographic contrast" ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound-contrast-agents/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ultrasound-elastography-ceus/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/ge-healthcare/> .