Key result
Contrast-enhanced 2-D and 3-D intracardiac echocardiography accurately and reproducibly localized and quantified the extent and depth of radio-frequency ablation lesions within the myocardium.
Why the study?
Can contrast-enhanced 2-D and 3-D ICE accurately localize and quantify RF ablation lesions in an intact beating heart?
Can contrast-enhanced 2-D and 3-D ICE accurately localize and quantify RF ablation lesions in an intact beating heart?
Contrast-enhanced 2-D and 3-D ICE represents a novel and feasible method for real-time localization and quantification of radio-frequency ablation lesions.
Animal data support ICE lesion imaging development; leaves open translation to clinical RF ablation procedures.
The authors presented a first application of 2-D contrast-enhanced ICE in localizing RF ablation lesions and, more importantly, accurately and reproducibly quantifying their extent and depth within the myocardium in the intact beating heart. Furthermore, the study extended this application and presented, for the first time, a novel method based on contrast-enhanced 3-D ICE to describe details of contiguous linear lesions.
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Khoury et al. (2011) studied Cardiac Radio-Frequency Ablation. Contrast-enhanced 2-D and 3-D intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) was evaluated on Localization and quantification of RF ablation lesions. Contrast-enhanced 2-D and 3-D intracardiac echocardiography accurately and reproducibly localized and quantified the extent and depth of radio-frequency ablation lesions within the myocardium.
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