title: Advances in echocardiography.
abstract: Echocardiography remains the main tool for noninvasive cardiac evaluation. Advances in echo technology and techniques offer new information, which will impact both the timing and method of surgical intervention. Three-dimensional echocardiography, in particular, provides improved tools for quantification both of volumes and of flows. Geometrical relations necessary for understanding functional abnormalities are also preserved with three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography. Finally 3D echocardiography also provides a unique tool for guiding minimally invasive interventions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. dliang@stanford.edu
authors.forename: David H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Liang
mesh_terms: D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional