Definitive diagnosis of descending thoracic aortic dissection by real time/live three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.
We describe a patient with descending thoracic aortic dissection in whom three- dimensional transthoracic echocardiography was able to clearly visualize the dissection flap en face as a sheet of tissue, as well as demonstrate a large communication between the true and false lumen in three dimensions, enabling a definitive diagnosis of dissection.
Yelamanchili
Pridhvi
P
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Patel
Vinod
V
Bogabathina
Hari
H
Baysan
Oben
O
D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged