Domenico G Della Rocca, Michele Magnocavallo, Carola Gianni, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Amin Al-Ahmad, Mohamed Bassiouny, Marialessia Denora, Vincenzo Mirco La Fazia, Carlo Lavalle, Gerald J Gallinghouse, Pasquale Santangeli, Marco Polselli, Andrea Sarkozy, Giampaolo Vetta, Adnan Ahmed, Javier E Sanchez, Luigi Pannone, Gian-Battista Chierchia, David R Tschopp, Carlo de Asmundis, Luigi Di Biase, Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, David J Burkhardt, Rodney P Horton, Andrea Natale
BACKGROUND: Left atrial appendage (LAA) imaging is critical during percutaneous occlusion procedures. 3D-intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) features direct visualization of LAA from multiple cross-sectional planes at a time.We aimed at reporting procedural success of 3D-ICE-guided LAA occlusion and the correlation between pre-procedural transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and intraprocedural 3D-ICE for LAA sizing. METHODS: Among 274 patients undergoing LAAO with a Watchman FLX, periprocedural ICE guidance was achieved via a commercially available 2D-ICE catheter (220 patients) or a novel (NUVISION™) 3D-ICE one (54 patients)...
January 16, 2024: Europace: European Pacing, Arrhythmias, and Cardiac Electrophysiology