The growing role of echocardiography in interventional cardiology: The present and the future

As structural heart disease interventions continue to evolve to a sophisticated level, accurate and reliable imaging is required for pre-procedural selection of cases, intra-procedural guidance, post-procedural evaluation, and long-term follow-up of patients. Traditionally, cardiovascular procedures...

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Published in:	Hellenic journal of cardiology Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 17 - 31
Main Authors:	Patrianakos, A.P., Zacharaki, A.A., Skalidis, E.I., Hamilos, M.I., Parthenakis, F.I., Vardas, P.E.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01-01-2017 Elsevier
Subjects:	3D echocardiography Angiography - methods Cardiac Catheterization - methods Catheterization laboratory Echocardiography - methods Echocardiography, Transesophageal - methods Fluoroscopy - methods Heart Diseases - diagnostic imaging Heart Diseases - therapy Humans Interventional Transesophageal Ultrasonography, Interventional - instrumentation Ultrasonography, Interventional - methods 3D echocardiography Interventional Transesophageal Catheterization laboratory
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Summary:	As structural heart disease interventions continue to evolve to a sophisticated level, accurate and reliable imaging is required for pre-procedural selection of cases, intra-procedural guidance, post-procedural evaluation, and long-term follow-up of patients. Traditionally, cardiovascular procedures in the catheterization laboratory are guided by fluoroscopy and angiography. Advances in echocardiography can overcome most limitations of conventional imaging modalities and provide successful completion of each step of any catheter–based treatment. Echocardiography's unique characteristics rendered it the ideal technique for percutaneous catheter-based procedures. The purpose of this review is to demonstrate the use of the most common and up-to-date echocardiographic techniques in recent non-coronary percutaneous interventional procedures, underlining its inevitable and growing role, as well as illustrating areas of weakness and limitations, and to provide future perspectives.
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ISSN:	1109-9666 2241-5955
DOI:	10.1016/j.hjc.2017.01.008