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Accurate adjustment of de Vega tricuspid annuloplasty using transesophageal echocardiography
1Carolinas Heart Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is used to adjust the tension of a de Vega tricuspid annuloplasty suture. Leading the suture outside the right atrium allows the annulus to be adjusted after cardiopulmonary bypass is discontinued when cardiac function has returned.
