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Real-time 3D echocardiography enhances spatial visualization and quantitative assessment of mitral valve pathology, facilitating medical and surgical treatment decisions.
Real-time 3D echocardiography enhances the spatial visualization and quantification of mitral valve pathology, aiding in clinical decision-making.
May support 3D echocardiography for mitral valve decisions; leaves open need for prospective outcome validation.
The advent of real-time (RT) 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in 2007 has enhanced our understanding of the location and extent of the pathology of the native, as well as prosthetic, mitral valve (MV), particularly for MV prolapse and the anatomy of perivalvular dehiscence with prosthetic MV. MV quantification programs provide precise assessment of many quantitative MV parameters allowing 3D echocardiography to determine and quantify the geometry of mitral apparatus, including mitral annulus and periannular region, leaflet volume and anatomy, tethering distances, and tenting volumes. The detailed, accurate and optimal RT spatial visualization of the MV with 3D TEE gives greater confidence to the echocardiographer, interventionalist and the surgeon alike, facilitating medical and surgical treatment decisions. This article highlights recent advances in RT 3D TEE and transthoracic echocardiography echocardiographic imaging of the MV.
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Qamruddin et al. (2011) conducted a review in Mitral valve pathology. Real-time 3D transesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography was evaluated. Real-time 3D echocardiography enhances spatial visualization and quantitative assessment of mitral valve pathology, facilitating medical and surgical treatment decisions.
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