title: Incremental value of three-dimensional echocardiography over the two-dimensional technique in the assessment of combined sinus of valsalva rupture into the right ventricle and adjacent perimembranous ventricular septal defect.
abstract: We describe the incremental value of live/real time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography over the 2D technique in the assessment of ruptured right sinus of Valsalva into the right ventricle associated with an adjacent perimembranous ventricular septal defect in an elderly patient.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
authors.forename: Mustafa I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: Gulay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gok
authors.forename: Burcu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yuzbas
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burkhart
authors.forename: Maximiliano German
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Amado Escañuela
authors.forename: Oluseun O
authors.initials: OO
authors.lastname: Alli
authors.forename: Navin C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Nanda
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012850:Sinus of Valsalva / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
keywords: congenital heart disease; echocardiography; sinus of Valsalva fistula; sinus of Valsalva rupture; three-dimensional echocardiography; two-dimensional echocardiography; ventricular septal defect