Intra-operative trans-esophageal echocardiography in heart valve disease

Aayush Poddar; Hyun Suk Yang; Chandrasekar Padmanabhan; Joseph Maalouf; Krishnaswamy Chandrasekaran

doi:10.1007/s12055-019-00909-9

Intra-operative trans-esophageal echocardiography in heart valve disease

Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Jan;36(Suppl 1):140-153. doi: 10.1007/s12055-019-00909-9. Epub 2020 Jan 9.

Authors

Aayush Poddar¹, Hyun Suk Yang², Chandrasekar Padmanabhan¹, Joseph Maalouf³, Krishnaswamy Chandrasekaran³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital, Coimbatore, India.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905 USA.

Abstract

Peri-operative echocardiography is widely used because it provides information that significantly influences clinical/surgical management and improves outcome in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The role of intra-operative trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) in valvular heart disease cannot be emphasized enough. Increasing use of newer surgical techniques-valve repairs and minimal invasive cardiac surgery also warrants intra-operative TEE. It gives us better insight into the anatomy and physiology of the valvular lesion by digital imaging. This manuscript provides an illustrative case based overview of intra operative TEE (IOTEE) in heart valve surgery.

Keywords: Heart valve disease; Intra-operative; Trans-esophageal echocardiography; Valve repairs.