Publication Title
Cardiovasc Diagn Ther
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2018
Keywords
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE); bicaval view; coronary sinus inferior vena cava (CS IVC)
Abstract
Since the early beginning of the transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) era, standardized tomographic views describing cardiac key structures have been provided. They have become the basis of TEE and have not been modified for decades. During our recent structural interventional cases, it has come to our attention that the structure frequently labeled "inferior vena cava" in textbooks and journal articles illustrating the bicaval TEE view is, in fact, the coronary sinus. Our manuscript illustrates our observation.
Clinical Institute
Cardiovascular (Heart)
Specialty/Research Institute
Cardiology
