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Morphological and Functional Assessment of the Right Ventricle Using 3D Echocardiography
Published on: October 28, 2020
Three-dimensional echocardiography enhances the assessment of ventricular septal defect
A Dall'Agata1, A H Cromme-Dijkhuis, F J Meijboom
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
By 3-dimensional echocardiography, the location, relation to the aortic and tricuspid valve, and the size of the ventricular septal defect was assessed and compared with 2-dimensional echocardiography and intraoperative findings. We concluded that 3-dimensional echocardiography accurately assesses the anatomy of the ventricular septal defect, provides additional information, and can be considered a valuable preoperative diagnostic tool.
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