Systematic Mapping of Conduction Tissue Regions During Congenital Heart Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Damage to the cardiac conduction system is a major risk of congenital cardiac surgery. Localization of the conduction system is commonly based on anatomic landmarks, which are variable in congenital heart diseases. We introduce a novel technique for identification of conduction tissue regions based on real-time fiberoptic confocal microscopy.

Description

We developed a fiberoptic confocal microscopy-based technique to document conduction tissue regions and deployed it in pediatric patients undergoing repair of common congenital heart defects. The technique applies clockface schematics for intraoperative documentation of the location of conduction tissue regions.

Evaluation

We created clockface schematics for 11 patients with ventricular septal defects, 6 with

SUBMITTER: Kaza AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9903201 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature