# OnCo record perflutren-lipid-microspheres (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/perflutren-lipid-microspheres/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "perflutren-lipid-microspheres" ;
  schema:name "Perflutren lipid microspheres (ultrasound contrast)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "perflutren"@en, "Definity"@en, "Definity RT"@en, "Luminity"@en, "Definity" ;
  schema:description "Gas bubbles injected into a vein during a heart ultrasound to show the heart's pumping chamber more clearly when the ordinary picture is not good enough."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/perflutren-lipid-microspheres/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?event=overview.process&ApplNo=021064>, <https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=7b9de6ab-a3ac-40c9-8103-139dc7a464a2>, <https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/luminity>, <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, gas microbubbles for echocardiography (intravenous)" ;
  onco:approval "US 2001: Opacification of the left ventricle in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms", "EU 2006: Ultrasound contrast in suboptimal echocardiography" ;
  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/lantheus/> .