Key result
Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography accurately diagnosed a quadricuspid aortic valve that was misdiagnosed as bicuspid by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.
Why the study?
Does live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography improve the diagnosis of quadricuspid aortic valve compared to two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in an adult?
Does live/real time three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography improve the diagnosis of quadricuspid aortic valve compared to two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in an adult?
Live/real time 3D transthoracic echocardiography can accurately diagnose quadricuspid aortic valves that may be misdiagnosed by standard 2D echocardiography.
May prompt 3D echocardiography when quadricuspid aortic valve is suspected after 2D imaging; leaves open routine adoption pending larger studies.
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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Burri et al. (2007) studied this question. Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography accurately diagnosed a quadricuspid aortic valve that was misdiagnosed as bicuspid by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography.
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