Transthoracic Echocardiography Guidance for MitraClip Procedure

Intracardiac Echocardiography-Guided Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair for Mitral Regurgitation

“…Transthoracic echocardiography–guided M-TEER has also been used in previous case reports in which TEE was contraindicated. 6 , 13 However, the imaging quality of intraprocedural TTE is not always sufficient for the grasping of the MV leaflet in terms of low resolution. However, ICE can provide superior image quality based on higher spatial resolution than TTE due to the closer distance between the probe and MV.…”