Key result
Real-time transthoracic 3D echocardiography successfully reconstructed the morphology and calculated the volume of a left ventricular diverticulum located between the aortic and mitral valves.
Real-time transthoracic 3D echocardiography is a feasible technique for reconstructing the morphology and calculating the volume of a left ventricular diverticulum.
May support noninvasive assessment of rare LV diverticula; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
A real time transthoracic 3D study of a left ventricular diverticulum established through a narrow orifice located between the aortic and mitral valves is presented. Diverticular morphology was reconstructed and its volumes were calculated by this technique for the first time in the literature.
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Ruiz‐Esparza et al. (2009) studied this question. Real-time transthoracic 3D echocardiography successfully reconstructed the morphology and calculated the volume of a left ventricular diverticulum located between the aortic and mitral valves.
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