Intracardiac echocardiography imaging of periprosthetic valvular regurgitation.

نویسندگان

  • Spyridon Deftereos
  • Georgios Giannopoulos
  • Konstantinos Raisakis
  • Andreas Kaoukis
  • Charalambos Kossyvakis
چکیده

A 62-year-old woman was referred for evaluation of recent-onset dyspnoea at rest and a newly found systolic heart murmur, heard best at the apex of the heart. The patient's history was notable for surgical mitral valve replacement 3 years ago, due to severe mitral regurgitation (myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve). The transthoracic echocardiogram gave the impression of a mitral regurgitant jet, but the acoustic shadow of the prosthesis did not allow adequate evaluation of the regurgitation. A transoesophageal echocardiogram was performed showing a normally functioning mitral prosthesis, with a small periprosthetic leak (Figure 1, upper panel), disproportionate to the patient's symptoms and marked signs of haemolysis. An intracardiac ultrasound study revealed a large paravalvular regurgitant jet, indicating significant periprosthetic regurgitation (Figure 1, lower panel). Intracardiac echocardiography is increasingly being used to guide percutaneous interventions and electrophysiological procedures. The present case suggests a potentially useful widening of the range of intracardiac ultrasound clinical applications, out of the realm of device-closure interventions and electrophysiological procedures. It appears that intracardiac echocardiography could become a second-line alternative to transoesophageal echocardiography, especially in patients with contraindication to the latter.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • European journal of echocardiography : the journal of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology

دوره 11 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010