title: Diagnostic transaortic cardioscopy of the left ventricle.
abstract: Preoperative diagnosis of pathologic intracardiac structures by noninvasive techniques is sometimes difficult or even impossible. In these cases a heart operation is required with opening of one or more cardiac chambers. We demonstrate direct visualization of the left ventricular cavity by transaortic cardioscopy in a patient with a pathologic intraventricular structure. With this technique we could avoid ventriculotomy.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kerckhoff Clinic of the Max Planck Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: O T
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: Reuthebuch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Klövekorn
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D010210:Papillary Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D014741:Video Recording