| Literature DB >> 30214866 |
Laura Vaskelyte1, Stefan Bertog1,2, Ilona Hofmann1, Bojan Jovanović1, Markus Reinartz1, Predrag Matić1, Sameer Gafoor1,3, Kolja Sievert1, Horst Sievert1.
Abstract
Since the early beginning of the transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) era, standardized tomographic views describing cardiac key structures have been provided. They have become the basis of TEE and have not been modified for decades. During our recent structural interventional cases, it has come to our attention that the structure frequently labeled "inferior vena cava" in textbooks and journal articles illustrating the bicaval TEE view is, in fact, the coronary sinus. Our manuscript illustrates our observation.Keywords: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE); bicaval view; coronary sinus inferior vena cava (CS IVC)
Year: 2018 PMID: 30214866 PMCID: PMC6129829 DOI: 10.21037/cdt.2018.05.01
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cardiovasc Diagn Ther ISSN: 2223-3652