What is it about?
Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) provides with imaging and hemodynamic data for procedural guidance of trancatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) without the need for endotracheal intubation. Thus, ICE supports TAVI to be done under monitored anesthesia care (MAC) wityhout waiver of continuous intra-procedural echocardiograsphic viewing.
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Why is it important?
It may improve safty of TAVI to be done under MAC.
Perspectives
Capabilities of ICE-guidance in TAVI have to be further evaluated by larger randomized trials. Results of smaller single center studies are availbale even now.
Professor Thomas Bartel
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
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This page is a summary of: Intracardiac echocardiography for guidance of transcatheter aortic valve implantation under monitored sedation: a solution to a dilemma?, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, October 2015, European Society of Cardiology,
DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jev280.
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