Use of intracardiac echocardiography to guide catheter closure of atrial communications.
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.
Koenig
Peter R
PR
Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago, Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Abdulla
Ra-id
RI
Cao
Qi-Ling
QL
Hijazi
Ziyad M
ZM
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