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Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) remains the gold standard for exclusion of left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus in patients scheduled for direct electrical cardioversion (DEC) or atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. Recently, intracardiac… Click to show full abstract
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) remains the gold standard for exclusion of left atrial appendage (LAA) thrombus in patients scheduled for direct electrical cardioversion (DEC) or atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. Recently, intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) of the pulmonary artery (PA) has been shown to provide excellent LAA images and to be useful in verification of equivocal TEE findings.
Keywords:
transesophageal echocardiography;
left atrial;
intracardiac echocardiography;
echocardiography;
atrial appendage
Journal Title: Clinical Cardiology
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Clinical Cardiology
Year Published: 2017
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