[Improved analysis of left ventricular function using three-dimensional echocardiography].
Left ventricular geometry and function are important pathophysiologic and prognostic parameters. However, especially in patients with cardiac pathologies left ventricular geometry can be complex. Quantification of left ventricular volumes using conventional two-dimensional echocardiography is only possible when simplifying assumptions of left ventricular geometry are made. In contrast three-dimensional echocardiography allows direct quantification of left ventricular volumes even in complex distortions of left ventricular shape. The availability of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography has brought this technique into clinical practice. Three-dimensional echocardiography is a technique that may be used as a routine echocardiographic method in the near future.
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Kliniken Pinneberg gGmbH, Klinikum Pinneberg, Medizinische Klinik-Kardiologie, Fahltskamp 74, 25421 Pinneberg. thomas.hofmann@kliniken-pinneberg.de
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Franzen
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D002306:Cardiac Volume / Q000502:physiology; D003287:Contrast Media; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004699:Endocardium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013318:Stroke Volume / Q000502:physiology; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology
D003287:Contrast Media