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Transesophageal Echocardiography in Pericardial Disease and Tamponade
Author(s) -
KRONZON ITZHAK,
TUNICK PAUL A.,
FREEDBERG ROBIN S.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1994.tb01091.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pericardial effusion , constrictive pericarditis , tamponade , cardiology , radiology , cardiac tamponade , pericarditis , pericardial fluid , hypertrophic cardiomyopathy , heart disease , differential diagnosis , pathology
While most pericardial disorders can be imaged by transthoracic echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography may be required in those cases where pericardial pathology is clinically suspected, but cannot be imaged adequately with transthoracic echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography is especially helpful in patients after heart or chest surgery, with cardiac compression by a loculated pericardial hematoma, in patients with dissection, endocarditis, or interatrial shunting associated with pericardial effusion, inpatients with pericardial tumors, and in the differential diagnosis between constrictive pericarditis and restrictive cardiomyopathy.