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Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography with a Special Focus on a Patient Undergoing Advanced Robotic‐Assisted Procedures
Author(s) -
Sorrell Vincent L.,
Rajeev Angampally G.,
Nifong L.W.,
Chu F.V.,
Chitwood Walter R.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2002.00583.x
Subject(s) - medicine , medical physics , mitral valve repair , focus (optics) , mitral valve , intervention (counseling) , general surgery , surgery , nursing , physics , optics
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 pioneer centers for these telemanipulation techniques.