The Traditional Endomyocardial Biopsy: Opportunities to Rethink its Role as the Gold Standard

The evolution in device optimization and technique modification to the endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) procedure over many decades has resulted in a relatively easy, straightforward, safe, and effective tool for pathological evaluation. (1-2) Early techniques obtaining myocardial biopsies - including percutaneous needle biopsy of the left ventricle, catheter needle biopsy of the interventricular septum, and open thoracotomy - are now simplified to percutaneous biopsies via the right internal jugular vein to the right ventricle under local anesthesia.
Source: Journal of Cardiac Failure - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research