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Contrast echo-enhancement during transesophageal echocardiography: indications and clinical benefits

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Abstract

During recent years, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has evolved as a major adjunct to conventional transthoracic echocardiography. Although TEE is a semi-invasive procedure, carries some discomfort for the patient and has a small, clinical risk [1], it has a clear advantage over transthoracic echocardiography in selected patients. Due to higher transducer frequencies, TEE provides improved image quality for cardiac structures with close proximity to the esophagus. In patients with poor transthoracic image quality (those with emphysema, chest wall abnormalities, prior heart surgery or on artificial ventilation) TEE is also a clinically helpful alternative to the transthoracic technique. Finally, TEE currently offers the only available echocardiographic window during open heart surgery.

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  1. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Navin C. Nanda MD (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories) (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories)

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    Navin C. Nanda MD (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories) (Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Station/Echocardiography Laboratories)

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Hausmann, D., Mügge, A., Kühn, H., Daniel, W.G. (1997). Contrast echo-enhancement during transesophageal echocardiography: indications and clinical benefits. In: Nanda, N.C., Schlief, R., Goldberg, B.B. (eds) Advances in Echo Imaging Using Contrast Enhancement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5704-9_18

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