Key result
Intracardiac echocardiography is replacing transesophageal echocardiography as the preferred imaging tool to guide device closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale.
Why the study?
Does intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) improve outcomes compared to transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in guiding catheter closure of atrial communications?
Does intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) improve outcomes compared to transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in guiding catheter closure of atrial communications?
This review highlights the technical aspects and growing preference for intracardiac echocardiography over transesophageal echocardiography in guiding the closure of atrial communications.
Supports increasing ICE use for ASD/PFO closure guidance; leaves open need for randomized outcome data versus TEE.
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.
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Koenig et al. (2003) studied this question. Intracardiac echocardiography is replacing transesophageal echocardiography as the preferred imaging tool to guide device closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale.
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