Successful Endomyocardial Biopsy Guided by Transthoracic Two-Dimensional Echocardiography

Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency in Recipients With Transplanted Heart

“…Спустя несколько лет A.I. Fiorelli et al возвращаются к этой проблеме, демонстри-руя данные с меньшим процентом обнаруженных в биоптатах элементов клапана и со статистически подтвержденным отсутствием существенной корре-ляции между подобными находками в ЭМБ-образ-цах и развитием недостаточности трикуспидального клапана [56,57].…”

Endomyocardial Biopsy Guided by Echocardiography

“…The two-dimensional echocardiography has been used in last 25 years to guide endomyocardial biopsy examination with emphasis in critical patients with cardiomyopathy or after heart transplantation; to help in the visualization of the intracardiac tumors' position and in patients that cannot go at catheterization room 40,41 . The patient is putting in supine position and the transducer is placed at the point of maximal impulse of the heart this way is possible obtain cardiac image in four chamber.…”

“…Recently, we published our experience with the use of two-dimensional echocardiography as a guidance method to performance of endomyocardial biopsies. We avoided the withdrawal from myocardial samples of right ventricle free wall by higher risk of perforation 40,41 . The preferred route of access for bioptome percutaneous introduction was the right internal jugular vein with 8.5 Fr introducer in 62(81.6%) biopsies, left internal jugular in 11(14.5%) and femoral vein in 3(3.9%).…”

Establishing Better Standards of Care in Doppler Echocardiography, Computed Tomography and Nuclear Cardiology

“…In our institution endomyocardial biopsy and Gallium-scintigraphy are the main methods to rejection control and Chagas' disease reactivation after heart transplantation, and research too [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] . The two-dimensional echocardiography has been used in last 25 years to guide endomyocardial biopsy examination with emphasis in critical patients with cardiomyopathy or after heart transplantation; to help in the visualization of the intracardiac tumors' position and in patients that cannot go at catheterization room 40,41 .…”