Transesophageal three-dimensional color Doppler echocardiographic reconstruction of the left vertebral artery.
We present a patient in whom we successfully reconstructed a long segment of the proximal left vertebral artery in three dimensions using color Doppler transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Three-dimensional (3-D) color Doppler TEE may complement two-dimensional (2-D) TEE by its ability to view cross sections of the left vertebral artery at any desired level from the 3-D data stored in the computer.
Ansingkar
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University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heart Station SW/S102, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA. nanda@uab.edu
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Nekkanti
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Aaluri
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Mukhtar
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D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000379:methods*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014711:Vertebral Artery / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery