University of Chicago Children's Hospital

Intracardiac echocardiography useful in perimembranous defect closure

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, December 29th, 2005

Use of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) may enable perimembranous ventricular septal defect (PMVSD) closure without general endotracheal anesthesia.

For several years, ICE "has been employed successfully in guiding transcatheter device closure of a secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) or patent foramen ovale (PFO)," cardiologists in the United States explained. However, "nothing is known regarding the use of ICE to guide catheter device closure" of a PMVSD.

In a study conducted by Q.L. Cao and coauthors at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital, "12 patients (7 female/5 male) who had a PMVSD (among them, 3 patients with associated atrial...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2005-12-29)

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