Experimental fetal transesophageal and intracardiac echocardiography utilizing intravascular ultrasound technology.
Fetal transesophageal and intracardiac echocardiography by utilizing ultrasound technology permits accurate definition of cardiac anatomy in fetal sheep. Because fetal transesophageal echocardiography is less invasive than intracardiac echocardiography, it has the potential to serve as a monitoring tool for currently developed open and fetoscopic fetal cardiac interventions.
Kohl
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Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.
Szabo
Z
Z
VanderWall
K J
KJ
Hutchinson
S J
SJ
Stelnicki
E J
EJ
Meuli
M
M
Harrison
M R
MR
Silverman
N H
NH
Chou
T M
TM
D000818:Animals; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005318:Fetal Heart / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012756:Sheep; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal