• JACC Cardiovasc Imaging · Sep 2010

    Review

    Anatomy of right atrial structures by real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography.

    • Francesco F Faletra, Siew Y Ho, and Angelo Auricchio.
    • Division of Cardiology, Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland. francesco.faletra@cardiocentro.org
    • JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Sep 1; 3 (9): 966-75.

    AbstractThe rapid development of catheter ablation techniques for atrial arrhythmias has triggered a renewed interest in the anatomy of the right atrium. In particular, some atrial arrhythmias such as focal atrial arrhythmias or atrial flutter have been linked to the anatomic architecture of specific structures such as the crista terminalis or cavotricuspid isthmus. Real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (RT 3D TEE) is a recently developed technique that provides 3D images of unprecedented quality. Because the right atrium is very close to the transducer, this technique may provide high-quality images of those atrial structures involved in ablation procedures. This review describes a step-by-step approach for acquisition and processing of RT 3D TEE images of right atrial structures of relevance to electrophysiologists. For anatomical correlations of RT 3D TEE images, selected images of right atrial structures were matched to anatomical specimens.Copyright © 2010 American College of Cardiology Foundation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Free full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…