Monitoring and guiding cardiac interventions and surgery

Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Three-dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography Provides an Excellent Overview over the Pulmonary Vein Anatomy Facilitating Radiofrequency and Cryoablation Procedures

“…Therefore, we have evaluated the usefulness of three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography for assessing the left atrial anatomy prior to catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (either by radiofrequency catheter ablation or by cryoablation). There is only few data about the usefulness of 3D transesophageal echocardiography in the electrophysiology laboratory [25,27] and no sufficient data concerning 3D TEE for preprocedural imaging prior to catheter abklation of AF.…”

“…Alternatively, three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (3D TEE) provides an excellent overview over the individual left atrial morphology without most of the limitations associated with other imaging techniques [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25].…”