See what you’ve never seen before. With Live 3D Transesophageal Echo (TEE), clinical cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, interventional cardiologists, and echocardiographers can see cardiac structure and function as well as real-time displays of the beating heart from new perspectives. It’s quick, accurate, reproducible, and quantifiable.
Live 3D TEE provides new information |
- Visualization of pathology and function never seen before in real time when compared to the gold standard MRI
- More perspectives of the heart, the surgeon’s view, and the view inside the left ventricle
- Accurate, easy, and precise quantification of the mitral valve
- Fast and easy to display the 3D view
- 3D views are easier to understand, facilitating communication with patients and families
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Cardiologists can more confidently diagnose and plan the best treatment
Rely on exceptional image quality
See views not available transthoracically
See the heart in action – it’s fast, on-the-spot evaluation
One-button access, streamlined imaging
Interventional Cardiologists have more information for procedures
Device implantation
Complex ASD, VSD, and LAA closure
Improved visualization during guided procedures
EAE/ASE Recommendations for the Use of Echocardiography in New Transcatheter Interventions for Valvular Heart Disease. (Site registration required to view article.)
Live case study: Atrial Septal Defect Diagnosis and Repair with Live 3D and Live xPlane Trans-Esophageal Echocardiography
This Atrial Septal Defect closure demonstrates the benefits of integrating ultrasound echocardiography into the procedure room to assist in the guidance of structural heart disease interventions.
By John D. Carroll, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Cardiac and Vascular Center, Director, Interventional Cardiology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
A case study: Acquired Gerbode VSD Closure Real-time 3D transesophageal echocardiography (3D TEE) provides a new dimension of clinical insight for the cardiologist and cardiac surgeon when managing structural heart disease as demonstrated in the following case study. By: RA Badawi, MD, CJ White, MD, TJ Mulder, MD, V Lucas, MD, Ochsner Foundation, Heart and Vascular Institute, New Orleans, LA + Read the case study | 
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Multiple clear perspectives for Cardiac Surgery and Anesthesiology
With Live 3D TEE, Surgeons and Anesthesiologists can see the complete valve from multiple perspectives while it’s beating and have a comprehensive plan in place before the first incision. These are views not available once surgery begins. During surgery, Anesthesiologists easily monitor patients, perform analysis for Surgeons, and assess procedure outcomes to determine if fully resolved. You can assess function before closing, and if needed, further repairs can be done immediately. When patients are ready for follow up, Cardiologists have clear, accurate images and quantification data from procedures for optimum care planning.
Precise visualization
In the Cath and EP labs and OR, Live 3D TEE provides views you’ve never seen before. Using xMATRIX, the 3D heart is displayed in motion, in real time. Live 3D TEE provides accurate, reliable, real-time dynamic information for increased visibility during guided procedures. It’s more information for the Interventional Cardiologist, increasing confidence in the treatment and providing real-time evaluation during the procedure. During follow up, Live 3D TEE displays images of the same structure after the procedure, allowing you to visualize repairs and devices with a whole new level of clarity.
Surgeons and Anesthesiologists have more data in advance
Live 3D TEE is the GPS of surgery
Easy, one-button access
Increase diagnostic confidence with a single image
Effectively decide on next steps and treatment planning
Improve communication between physicians
Quantify the mitral valve with new and objective data
Definitive diagnoses
When patients espress complaints of shortness of breath, echo provides critical clinical data that lets you assess cardiac structure and function. For those patients who are difficult to image, transesophageal echo improves data acquisition and provides access to views that increase diagnostic information. More importantly, for the first time, TEE exams can be performed with Philips’ Live 3D Echo.
While imaging in 2D mode, just one button is required to display 3D images showing the surgeon’s view. The exceptional image quality provides clear details of cardiac morphology, and increases your diagnostic confidence. Then when it’s time to communicate with surgeons, you’re on the same page – these are the views they understand. You can more confidently communicate the extent and type of valvular problem and quantify it. Treatment planning is facilitated and you have new data to augment your patient discussions.