title: Usefulness of live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in the assessment of atrioventricular septal defects.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
authors.forename: Anurag
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Robb L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Romp
authors.forename: Navin C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajdev
authors.forename: Farhat
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mehmood
authors.forename: Oben
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Baysan
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Duncan
mesh_terms: 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