Knackstedt C, Mischke K, Frechen D, Gramley F, Schimpf T, Becker M, Franke A, Kelm M, Schauerte P
Department of Cardiology, RWTH University Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Minerva Cardioangiol. 2007 Dec;55(6):755-70.
Visualization of the cardiac anatomy becomes more and more important as the complexity of interventions increases. Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) provides good depiction of cardiac soft tissue structures and has become an important tool in today's cardiology. It has been shown to be valuable during many ablation procedures for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias. ICE has been used for monitoring catheter placement, observing catheter-tissue contact and lesion formation as well as titrating ablation energy. The rate of complications could be reduced, outcome of procedures improved and radiation exposure decreased. Even more, new therapy strategies have been evaluated based on ICE and it has also been used in the setting of three- dimensional imaging and image integration.
随着心脏介入手术复杂性的增加，心脏解剖结构的可视化变得越来越重要。心腔内超声心动图（ICE）能很好地显示心脏软组织结构，已成为当今心脏病学中的一项重要工具。在许多室上性和室性心律失常的消融手术中，ICE已被证明具有重要价值。ICE已用于监测导管放置、观察导管与组织的接触及损伤形成，以及调整消融能量。这可以降低并发症发生率，改善手术效果并减少辐射暴露。甚至，基于ICE评估了新的治疗策略，它还被用于三维成像和图像整合。
