Echocardiographic, intravascular, and transesophageal imaging can provide surgically relevant three-dimensional information about aortic valve anatomy.
Noninvasive 3D echo may refine aortic valve surgical planning; leaves open outcome validation in prospective trials.
Although aortic valve anatomy is three-dimensionally complex, careful echocardiographic investigation can yield surgically relevant information. The promise of intravascular and transesophageal imaging is in yielding the raw data of sufficient resolution to make the three-dimensional reconstruction clinically meaningful. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 13, May 1996)
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