title: Transesophageal echocardiography: a sonographer's perspective.
abstract: Clinical transesophageal echocardiography is increasingly being applied for the evaluation of numerous functional and anatomic cardiac abnormalities. This new technology has opened an area of invasive ultrasonography that has changed and expanded the role of the cardiac sonographer. The sonographer is essential for the implementation and performance of this recent advance in echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Ultrasound Imaging and Hemodynamic Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Mays
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Nichols
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Rubish
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: O'Meara
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Koverman
mesh_terms: D004452:Echocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D020701:Esophagoscopes; D006801:Humans; D014159:Transducers