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The utility of intracardiac echocardiography in interventional electrophysiology
1Arrhythmia Service, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. lepstein@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Current Cardiology Reports
|August 23, 2000
Abstract:
With the mounting of an ultrasound transducer on the end of a percutaneously placed catheter, intracardiac echocardiography is now possible. It has become clear that endocardial anatomy plays a critical role in a variety of cardiac arrhythmias. The ability to visualize this anatomy, and it's relationship to mapping and ablation catheters, may greatly enhance the safety and efficacy of catheter ablation procedures.