Key result
3D echocardiography and integrated echo-fluoroscopy facilitate procedural guidance during transcatheter valvular interventions.
Advanced imaging modalities, including 3D echocardiography and fusion imaging, are essential for guiding and improving the efficiency of transcatheter interventions for valvular heart disease.
May aid transcatheter valve guidance; leaves open need for outcome validation in prospective studies.
Valvular heart disease is a growing field, and the number of new approaches for percutaneous treatment is increasing rapidly. These procedures usually cannot be performed with fluoroscopy alone; allowing echocardiography to be an essential role inside the Cath Lab. Three-dimensional echocardiography, and the introduction of a novel imaging modality that integrates live echocardiography and live fluoroscopy imaging, has potential in facilitating procedure guidance and increasing procedure efficiency.
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González-Gómez et al. (2014) conducted a review in Valvular heart disease. Three-dimensional echocardiography and integrated imaging (EchoNavigator) was evaluated. Three-dimensional echocardiography and novel imaging modalities integrating live echocardiography and fluoroscopy facilitate procedure guidance during transcatheter interventions for valvular heart disease.
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