title: Real-time three-dimensional ultrasound - a valuable new tool in preoperative assessment of complex congenital cardiac disease.
abstract: Evaluating complex cardiac defects in small children preoperatively requires multiple diagnostic procedures including echocardiography, and also invasive methods such as cardiac catheterisation, computer-tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. We assessed the complex anatomy of the atrioventricular valves in atrioventricular septal defect using bedside real-time three-dimensional echocardiography and comparing these results to the anatomic findings at the time of operative intervention.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Ludwigs-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Pozza R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Dalla
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Römer
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kozlik-Feldmann
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Netz