Transesophageal Echocardiography During Ventricular Fibrillation
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Transesophageal echocardiography during pulmonary vein cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation.
We describe our first 20 cases of cryoablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Continuous procedural monitoring with TEE by a cardiologist and senior sonographer assists the electrophysiologist in performance of the cryoballoon procedure of AF. Previously using intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) we have found TEE to have better overall procedural imagi...
متن کاملTransesophageal echocardiography before atrial fibrillation ablation: looking before cooking.
p 2 A e b c t b n many electrophysiology laboratories, atrial fibrillation AF) is becoming the most common heart rhythm disorder eing treated with catheter ablation. Reasons for this nclude the large numbers of patients with AF, the poor uality of life commonly associated with AF, the limitations f drug therapy, advances in ablation tools and methods, nd the increasing number of electrophysiolo...
متن کاملEconomic implications of transesophageal echocardiography-guided cardioversion of atrial fibrillation.
schemic stroke is the most feared complication of atrial brillation, and many studies have investigated strategies to educe cerebral embolism. Anticoagulation with warfarin is emarkably effective in reducing the risk of ischemic stroke mong patients with chronic atrial fibrillation (1) and has ecome standard therapy. More recently, four randomized rials (2–5) have shown that a strategy of aggre...
متن کاملBenzocaine-induced methemoglobinemia during transesophageal echocardiography.
Acquired or toxic methemoglobinemia is an uncommon complication of topically administered anesthetic agents in patients of all ages-but particularly in pediatric and elderly patients. This report describes a case of acquired methemoglobinemia that occurred after benzocaine spray was applied orally to a 69-year-old white woman weighing 175 lb who was undergoing transesophageal echocardiography. ...
متن کاملReal-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography during left atrial radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation.
Left atrial radiofrequency catheter ablation has been recognized as an important treatment option for drugrefractory symptomatic atrial fibrillation.1 Recent consensus on technique favors catheter ablation directed to the left atrium near the pulmonary vein (PV) ostium to achieve PV isolation.2 However, ablation in the region of the ligament of Marshall (LOM) to achieve electrical isolation of ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.109.853192