title: [Intracardiac echocardiography: a new tool for interventional cardiology].
abstract: Intracardiac echocardiography is a new technique based on the use of ultrasonic diagnostic catheter, which can be introduced through the femoral vein up of the right atrium. Intracardiac echocardiography provides bidimensional views, coupled to colour and pulsed Doppler. This review summarizes multiple applications of intracardiac echocardiography in the field of interventional cardiology, particularly during percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale or atrial septal defect. A major advantage of intracardiac echocardiography is the possibility of avoiding general anaesthesia as well as providing equivalent information to the reference technique of transoesophageal echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Service de Cardiologie, CHUV, Lausanne. gregoire.girod@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Grégoire
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Girod
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Delabays
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roguelov
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Renders
authors.forename: Stefaan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Van de Walle
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vogt
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eckhout
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional