title: Use of intracardiac echocardiography to guide catheter closure of atrial communications.
abstract: Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is slowly replacing transesophageal echocardiography as the preferred imaging tool to guide device closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale. This article is a brief review of the literature related to ICE, the technical aspects ICE imaging, techniques for obtaining the standard views, and the future directions of this methodology.
authors.affiliation: Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago, Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Peter R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Koenig
authors.forename: Ra-id
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Abdulla
authors.forename: Qi-Ling
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Ziyad M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Hijazi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D021721:Balloon Occlusion / Q000379:methods*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity