Why the study?
Does live 3D echocardiography provide advantages over traditional 2D echocardiography?
Does live 3D echocardiography provide advantages over traditional 2D echocardiography?
Live 3D echocardiography offers significant advantages over traditional 2D echocardiography for specific structural and volumetric assessments, suggesting it will become part of routine examinations.
Supports selective 3D echocardiography use for volumes and valves; leaves open prospective outcome trials before routine adoption.
OBJECTIVE: We describe the development of real-time 3D imaging and review the previously used versions of 3D echocardiography so that the reader will appreciate why current developments truly do represent a quantum leap in the technology. CONCLUSION: Three-dimensional echocardiography has now been shown to have several advantages over 2D echocardiography, particularly for volume measurements, visualization of septal defects, and whole-valve evaluation. Given these data, it is clear that 3D echocardiography is here to stay and soon will become part of routine echocardiographic examinations.
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