Intracardiac echocardiography-guided interventions: do we need trials to prove equivalency/superiority to transesophageal echocardiography?

Ziyad M Hijazi; Hussam Suradi

doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2014.07.001

Intracardiac echocardiography-guided interventions: do we need trials to prove equivalency/superiority to transesophageal echocardiography?

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2014 Sep;7(9):1045-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2014.07.001.

Authors

Ziyad M Hijazi¹, Hussam Suradi²

Affiliations

¹ Sidra Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha-Qatar, Qatar; Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. Electronic address: zhijazi@sidra.org.
² Sidra Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha-Qatar, Qatar.

PMID: 25234678
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2014.07.001

No abstract available

Keywords: atrial fibrillation; imaging-guided interventions; intracardiac echocardiogram; left atrial appendage occlusion; transeophageal echocardiogram.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Atrial Appendage / diagnostic imaging*
Atrial Fibrillation / therapy*
Cardiac Catheterization / instrumentation*
Echocardiography / methods*
Female
Humans
Male
Ultrasonography, Interventional / methods*