Three-dimensional echocardiography in congenital heart disease: a continuum of unfulfilled promises? No. A presently clinically applicable technology with an important future? Yes.
Three-dimensional echocardiography has important clinical applications to congenital heart disease. Such applications include assessment of ventricular volumes, and unique imaging planes and projections of septae and atrio-ventricular and semi-lunar valves. Advances in ultrasound and computer technology will improve the process of three-dimensional echocardiography to continue to bring it to everyday clinical utility application.
Marx
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Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. marx@cardio.tch.harvard.edu
Sherwood
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