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Diagnostic transaortic cardioscopy of the left ventricle
E P Bauer1, O T Reuthebuch, M Roth
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kerckhoff Clinic of the Max Planck Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
Preoperative diagnosis of pathologic intracardiac structures by noninvasive techniques is sometimes difficult or even impossible. In these cases a heart operation is required with opening of one or more cardiac chambers. We demonstrate direct visualization of the left ventricular cavity by transaortic cardioscopy in a patient with a pathologic intraventricular structure. With this technique we could avoid ventriculotomy.