title: Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of acute aortic syndrome.
abstract: In recent years, technological advances in echocardiography have led to improvements in the diagnosis of acute aortic disease. With transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and, particularly, bi- and multiplane probes, the physiopathologic understanding of these diseases has widened. Thus, new entities such as penetrating ulcer and intramural hematoma have been described and differentiated from classical aortic dissection.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. evangel@hg.vhebron.es
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Evangelista
authors.forename: Gustavo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Avegliano
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Elorz
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: González-Alujas
authors.forename: Herminio
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Garcia del Castillo
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soler-Soler
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed