Journal article
Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography with a Special Focus on a Patient Undergoing Advanced Robotic‐Assisted Procedures
Abstract
Intraoperative echocardiography (IOE) has earned a major role in surgical decision-making and helps the cardiac surgeon decide and proceed with appropriate intervention based on the visualized pathology. With the advent of minimally invasive surgical techniques and robotic-assisted operations, more emphasis and dependence has been placed on IOE. We describe our experience with IOE during mitral valve repair at our center, which is one of the …
Authors
Sorrell VL; Rajeev AG; Nifong LW; Chu FV; Chitwood WR
Journal
Echocardiography, Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 583–587
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
October 2002
DOI
10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00583.x
ISSN
0742-2822