Key result
Multimodality 3D image integration increasingly guides complex catheterizations in congenital heart disease.
Why the study?
Cardiac catheterization procedures for patients with congenital and structural heart disease are becoming more complex, necessitating new imaging strategies for guidance.
Multimodality 3D image integration facilitates complex diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures in patients with congenital heart disease.
3D imaging integration may aid complex congenital interventions; leaves open the need for outcome validation before broader adoption.
Cardiac catheterization procedures for patients with congenital and structural heart disease are becoming more complex. New imaging strategies involving integration of 3-dimensional images from rotational angiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography (CT), and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) are employed to facilitate these procedures. We discuss the current use of these new 3D imaging technologies and their advantages and challenges when used to guide complex diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures in patients with congenital heart disease.
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Fagan et al. (2014) conducted a review in Congenital and structural heart disease. Multimodality 3-dimensional image integration was evaluated. Multimodality 3-dimensional image integration is increasingly employed to facilitate and guide complex diagnostic and interventional catheterization procedures in congenital heart disease.
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