Initial clinical experience using the Echo Navigator~-system during structural heart disease interventions

作     者：Jan Balzer Tobias Zeus Katharina Hellhammer Verena Veulemans Silke Eschenhagen Eva Kehmeier Christian Meyer Tienush Rassaf Malte Kelm 

作者机构：Division of CardiologyPneumology and Angiology Department of Medicine University Hospital Duesseldorf 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Cardiology》 (世界心脏病学杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第7卷第9期

页      面：562-570页

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学] 

基　　金：A Restricted Grant from the Federal State Govern-ment of North Rhine-Westphalia and the European Union(EFRE-Program"Med in.NRW") No.005-GW01-235A 

主　　题：Fusion imaging Interventional guidance Percutaneou 

摘      要：AIM: To present our initial clinical experience using this innovative software solution for guidance of percutaneous structural heart disease ***: Left atrial appendage, atrial septal defect and paravalvular leak closure, transaortic valve repair and Mitra Clip procedures were performed in the catheter laboratory under fluoroscopic and echocardiographic guidance. The two-dimensional and three-dimensional images generated by the transesophageal echocardiography probe were interfaced with the fluoroscopic images in real-time using the Echo Navigator-***:The application of the novel image fusion technology was safe and led to a better appreciation of multimodality imaging guidance due to improved visualization of the complex relationship between catheter devices and anatomical ***:The Echo Navigator-system is a feasible and safe tool for guidance of interventional procedures in structural heart *** innovative technology may improve confidence of interventional cardiologists in targeting and positioning interventional devices in order to increase safety,accuracy,and efficacy of percutaneous interventions in the catheter laboratory.