Key result
Real-time 3D echo outperforms 2D echo in outcome prognosis by eliminating geometric assumptions.
Three-dimensional echocardiography offers significant advantages over traditional 2D imaging, including better quantification of complex geometries and superior outcome prognosis.
May support selective 3D echocardiography use for complex geometries; leaves open prospective outcome trials before routine adoption.
The use of cardiac ultrasound is fundamental to the understanding of normal heart function and crucial to pathophysiological diagnosis. The growing availability of 3D echocardiography (3DE) over the last decade has allowed its applications to expand from establishing reference values for chamber size and elucidating ventricular mechanics, to assessing valvular disease severity and playing pivotal roles in interventional procedures. Several important advantages of 3DE include eliminating geometric assumptions, quantifying complex geometric shape volumes, viewing structures from any perspective, assessing lesion in simultaneous multiplanes or multislice mode, all of which are not possible with traditional 2D echocardiography (2DE). Real-time 3DE has been shown to be simple, accurate, reproducible, and versatile, and generally has superior outcome prognosis compared to the 2DE.
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Wu et al. (2017) conducted a review in Cardiac function and pathophysiological diagnosis. 3D echocardiography (3DE) vs. 2D echocardiography (2DE) was evaluated. Real-time 3D echocardiography offers significant advantages over traditional 2D echocardiography, including eliminating geometric assumptions and providing superior outcome prognosis.
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