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.
Cotrim
Carlos
C
Serviço de Cardiologia, Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portugal. carlosadcotrim@hotmail.com
Cordeiro
Pedro
P
Zamorano
José
J
Simoes
Otília
O
Loureiro
M J
MJ
Vinhas
Hugo
H
Oliveira
M
M
Carrageta
Manuel
M
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