One hundred and twenty-four patients with heart disease（75 cases of rheumatic heart disease

26 cases of congenital heart disease

13 cases of aortic disease and 10 cases of other disease）were examined by Omniplane transesophageal echocardiography（TEE）.The result showed that Omniplane TEE transducer can be rotated from 0°to 180°in probe and had the advantages of broader scope

obtaining more information

less stimulation to esophagus and easy to manipulate.It suggests that Omniplane TEE is a efficient technique in clinical diagnosis and can be extensively used in the future.