Real-time 3d Interventional Echocardiography

by Faletra, Francesco Fulvio; Perk, Gila; Pandian, Natesa G.; Nesser, Hans-joachim; Kronzon, Itzhak

• ISBN13: 9781447147442
• ISBN10: 1447147448
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-21
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Advances in technology and human skill have made possible percutaneouscatheter-based procedures for a wide spectrum of structural heart disease. Agrowing number of structural heart diseases that over the past two decadeswould have required open heart surgery can be safely treated using percutaneouscatheter-based procedures.Traditionally, guidance of catheter-based proceduresis done using fluoroscopy and two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography(2D TEE). The recent introduction in the clinical practice of RT 3D TEE hasovercome most of limitations of 2D TEE.The purpose of this book is to describe the use of this imagingmodality in percutaneous interventional procedures underlying its growing roleand acceptance among the interventional cardiologists but also emphasizingareas of weakness. Because today interventional cardiology ranges from closureof atrial and ventricular septal defects, to repair of mitral regurgitation andaortic stenosis, from the closure of left atrial appendage and prosthesisdehiscence, to the recent use in electrophysiological procedure, this booktargets not only specialists in echocardiography and interventional cardiologybut also general cardiologists. General cardiologists will find in any chapter anatomy of the structuretreated (i.e. atrial septum, mitral valve…), a description of themorphopathology as seen with RT 3D TEE (degenerative or ischemic mitral regurgitation)the up-to-date indications to the specific percutaneous treatment and typicaland unusual clinical cases.