Usefulness of live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in the assessment of atrioventricular septal defects.
We studied nine patients (five newborns and infants, two children, and two adults) with atrioventricular septal defects (four complete, one intermediate, and four partial) utilizing live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (3DTTE) and a 4-MHz matrix array transducer. In all patients, 3DTTE provided additional morphological and/or functional information as compared to standard two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2DTTE). 3DTTE may be a useful supplement to 2DTTE in the assessment of atrioventricular septal defects.
Singh
Anurag
A
Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Romp
Robb L
RL
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Rajdev
Sanjay
S
Mehmood
Farhat
F
Baysan
Oben
O
Patel
Vinod
V
Duncan
Kurt
K
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index