title: Successful use of transesophageal echocardiography during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in infants after cardiac operations.
abstract: We report the use of transesophageal echocardiography in infants after cardiac operations while supported on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. In all patients transesophageal echocardiography provided valuable information when standard transthoracic echocardiographic evaluation was limited by poor acoustic windows. This report describes the application of transesophageal echocardiography during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after cardiac operations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, University of Southern California School of Medicine 90027, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Marcus
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Lindesmith
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Starnes
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male