intracardiac echocardiography

intracardiac echocardiography

Cardiology A minimally invasive imaging modality used to guide complex transseptal catheterization; IE is used to guide transseptal puncture for percutaneous transvenous mitral commisurotomy in mitral valve stenosis, as well as giant left atria, atrial septal aneurysms, or severe kyphoscoliosis