Adolescent and adult congenital heart disease assessed by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography: an initial experience.
Real-time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography has enormous diagnostic potential, enabling acquisition of full-volume three-dimensional images in real time, which can be sliced in several planes and rotated in order to achieve a more accurate study of the target cardiac structures. It is particularly useful because it enables the heart to be visualized from multiple perspectives in the same way a surgeon would see it during an operation. We describe our echocardiographic laboratory's experience with real-time 3D ultrasound study of adolescent and adult congenital heart disease.
Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal. carlosadcotrim@hotmail.com
Carlos
C
Cotrim
Pedro
P
Cordeiro
José
J
Zamorano
Otília
O
Simoes
M J
MJ
Loureiro
Hugo
H
Vinhas
M
M
Oliveira
Manuel
M
Carrageta
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000151:congenital* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged