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Although stent implantation into aortic coarctation has been performed solely under fluoroscopy, we successfully applied intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) to guide this procedure in a 13‐year‐old patient. Placing an intracardiac echocardiographic catheter in the left pulmonary artery facing upward, we readily visualized the precise anatomy of coarctation, measured the pressure gradient, and monitored...
BackgroundSystemic hypertension (HTN) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) may be associated with left atrial (LA) dilation, but whether LA functional abnormalities are characteristic to each disease or not, is unknown. The aim of this study was to characterize LA mechanical changes in patients with HTN and HCM using vector velocity imaging (VVI).
MethodsVVI‐derived longitudinal LA function was...
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