"Role of echocardiography in catheter intervention in congenital heart defects".
Echocardiography has evolved over last 3 decades from M-mode echocardiography, two-dimensional echocardiography, Dopplerimaging, three-dimensional echocardiography to intravascular /intracardiac echocardiography with its immense role in evaluation of a patient with congenital heart disease. The refinement in echocardiography imaging technique has made echocardiography as the main stay in diagnosis and decision making in patient with congenital heart defects (CHD). It is used fr defining anatomy, hemodyanamic assessment, guiding and immediate assessment of procedural results as well as detection of complication. In this review article, we are discussing the role of echocardiography (transthoracic/transesophageal) in catheter interventions in congenital heart defects.
Tomar
Munesh
M
Department of Pediatrics and congenital Heart Diseases, Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre, New Delhi, India. muneshtomar@yahoo.co.in
Radhakrishanan
Sitaraman
S
D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D002404:Catheterization / Q000379:methods; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results