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SUBMITTER: Golbas? Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5731528 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gölbaşı Zehra Z Çağlı Kumral K Özeke Özcan Ö Aras Dursun D
Anatolian journal of cardiology 20171001 4
Although Doppler analysis of pulmonary veins (PVs) is crucial in the assessment of cardiac hemodynamics, there is controversy regarding individual anatomical PV imaging with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). This report is a discussion of how to image PVs accurately using TTE. To resolve any contradiction, multiple TTE images were obtained during the selective catheterization of the PV in patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation procedure. Fluoroscopic images were used as a reference ...[more]