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Cittadella General Hospital

Accuracy of intracardiac echocardiography confirmed

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, September 29th, 2005

The accuracy of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) imaging has been confirmed.

"The feasibility and safety of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) in humans, using low frequency transducers, and its excellent tissue contrast capabilities that enhances the differentiation of intracardiac structures have been previously demonstrated," cardiologists in Italy explained.

"However, correlations among ICE imaging and anatomic sections or magnetic resonance (MR) scan planes have never been described before," noted M. Zanchetta and colleagues working at Cittadella General Hospital. In a recent study, they sought "to correlate a simplified ICE approach with...

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