title: Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography: a current view of what echocardiography can provide?
abstract: The development of real-time three dimensional echocardiography has allowed for the incorporation of 3-dimensional echocardiographic imaging into everyday cardiovascular clinical practice. In this State of the Art Paper we will provide an overview of three dimensional echocardiography and specific indications in which it has incremental value over traditional 2-dimensional echocardiography.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Heart Station SW/S102, 619 19th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA.
authors.forename: Fadi G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Hage
authors.forename: Navin C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology