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Echocardiographic Approaches and Protocols for Comprehensive Phenotypic Characterization of Valvular Heart Disease in Mice
Published on: February 14, 2017
Live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiographic identification of quadricuspid aortic valve
Manjula V Burri1, Navin C Nanda, Anurag Singh
1Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35249, USA.
Abstract:
We describe an adult in whom live/real time three-dimensional echocardiography was able to make a definite diagnosis of a quadricuspid aortic valve which was misdiagnosed as bicuspid by live two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography (2DTTE).
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