PMID: 8596063Dec 1, 1995Paper

Dynamic three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography using a computed tomographic imaging probe--clinical potential and limitation

International Journal of Cardiac Imaging
A C BorgesG Baumann

Abstract

Dynamic three-dimensional echocardiography is a new diagnostic tool for spatial visualisation of cardiac anatomy and volumetric assessment. A computer-controlled probe acquires parallel tomographic slices, from which dynamic three-dimensional images of the heart can be reconstructed. Thirty adult patients with valvular heart diseases, congenital heart diseases, intracardiac masses, heart failure and other cardiac lesions, underwent conventional two-dimensional (n = 30), three-dimensional echocardiography (n = 30) and thermodilution (n = 17). The feasibility, usefulness and possibility of simulating a surgical view of intracardiac anatomy and exact volumetry were determined. The two different morphologic images were compared qualitatively. For quantitative analysis volumetry was performed using standard thermodilution technique and dynamic three-dimensional echocardiography. In more than 80% of the patients additional morphologic information was gained and a strong correlation (r = 0.75-0.95) between two volumetry assessments was found. Based on this findings, dynamic three-dimensional echocardiography is an additional and valuable approach in the perioperative and intensive care management in this group of patients.

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