IMR Press / RCM / Volume 21 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm.2020.01.569
Open Access Systematic Review
Imaging with intracardiac echocardiography compared to transesophageal echocardiography during left atrial appendage occlusion
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1 Department of Cardiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, No. 6 Shuangyong Road, Nanning, 530021, Guangxi, P. R. China.
*Correspondence: Zhgq17@163.com (Guoqiang Zhong)
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2020, 21(1), 93–101; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm.2020.01.569
Submitted: 29 September 2019 | Accepted: 29 December 2019 | Published: 30 March 2020
Copyright: © 2020 Liang et al. Published by IMR press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
Abstract

We performed a meta-analysis comparing the procedural and outcomes data and related to left atrial appendage occlusion guided by intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients. Technical success with ICE was significantly similar to that of TEE (odds ratio [OR] 1.38, 95% CI [0.62, 3.09], I2 = 0%, P = 0.43). The peri-procedural complications showed no significant difference between the two groups (OR 0.84, 95% CI [0.57, 1.23], I2 = 0%, P = 0.37). Mortality was similar in procedures using ICE vs TEE (OR 0.89, 95% CI [0.51, 1.57], I2 = 0%, P = 0.69). Landing zones, procedural time and fluoroscopic times between ICE and TEE showed no significant differences (MD 1.96, 95% CI [-0.01, 3.94], I2 = 90%, P = 0.05; MD -1.64, 95% CI [-13.45, 10.17], I2 =95%, P = 0.79; and MD 0.49, 95% CI [-2.18, 3.16], I2= 87%, P = 0.72, respectively). Imaging with ICE or TEE is associated with similar outcomes in left atrial appendage occlusion procedures.

Keywords
Left atrial appendage occlusion
intracardiac echocardiography
transesophageal echocardiography
meta-analysis
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