title: Three-dimensional echocardiography of post-myocardial infarction cardiac rupture.
abstract: Ventricular septal defects and pseudoaneurysms are two serious complications of acute myocardial infarction and are associated with a high mortality if not surgically treated. Two-dimensional echocardiography provides excellent diagnostic information in such cases, but three-dimensional echocardiography may provide superior anatomic data of these potentially fatal complications. We describe two cases in which three-dimensional echocardiography provided incremental morphological information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Puri
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Doddamani
authors.forename: Patrick D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Coon
authors.forename: John W C
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Entwistle
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Strong
authors.forename: Mani
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vannan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D006342:Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male