Preliminary evaluation of a microtransesophageal probe in neonates and young infants undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease

• Main Authors: Sreeja Pavithran (Author), Kanagarajan Natarajan (Author), Bijesh Vishwambaran (Author), Avinash Dayalal Arke (Author), Kothandam Sivakumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The larger size of the currently available transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) probes limits their use to relatively older infants undergoing cardiac surgery. In very young neonates and infants, epicardial echocardiogram is used to assess postoperative residual defects. Recently, a mi...