Connecticut medicine
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Connecticut medicine · Oct 1991
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography--an indispensable tool in valve reconstruction and congenital anomalies.
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) with color flow mapping has become an excellent tool for evaluating valve reconstruction and correction of congenital anomalies intraoperatively. From February 1990 to September 1990 we have utilized TEE intraoperatively in 14 consecutive patients. Their ages ranged from 25 to 77 years, with a mean age of 58.7 years. ⋯ Following mitral valve repair TEE demonstrated trivial to no mitral regurgitation in eight (seven with repair) and mild regurgitation in one patient. All patients with closure of the ASD had an intact septum. The gradient in HOC was reduced significantly and there was satisfactory anatomical reattachment of the tricuspid annulus in Ebstein's anomaly.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)