Multiplane Intracardiac Echocardiography

Multiplane Transesophageal Echocardiography for Multiclinical Dilemmas

INTRODUCTION Transesophageal echocardiography was introduced 4 decades ago. Its use have had very limited clinical indication. Now it has become very useful clinical tool. Indications for its use are almost as indications for transthoracic echocardiography, especially to assess deeper cardiovascular structures. Transesophageal echocardiography is semi-invasive examination with small number of c...

Intracardiac Echocardiography-Guided Interventions

SEE PAGE 1036 I t may be surprising to realize that the initial work in intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) imaging appeared in the early 1960s, preceding the development of interventional catheterization procedures (1). The increasingly sophisticated catheter-based structural interventions that have emerged over the past decade, stimulated the growth of ICE to become an established imaging mod...

Intracardiac echocardiography use in children.

In their article, Bartel et al1 demonstrate the superiority of intracardiac echocardiography over conventional transesophageal echocardiography in guiding device closure of atrial septal defects (ASDs) and patent foramen ovale (PFO).1 ASDs and PFOs can be successfully closed in children under transesophageal echocardiography guidance.2,3 Because the authors have not provided the reader with the...

Intracardiac echocardiography begs to differ.

Multiplane transesophageal echocardiography: a basic oblique plane patient imaging sequence.

We have previously reported a standardized 10-step sequence of monoplane (transverse plane) transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiographic views and a standardized 7-step vertical plane examination, both suitable for expeditious intraoperative use by the beginning practitioner. A multiplane transesophageal examination involves transverse plane views, vertical plane views and the remaining "i...