Transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of acute aortic syndrome.
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.
Evangelista
Arturo
A
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain. evangel@hg.vhebron.es
Avegliano
Gustavo
G
Elorz
Cristina
C
González-Alujas
Teresa
T
Garcia del Castillo
Herminio
H
Soler-Soler
Jordi
J
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