Key result
Multimodality imaging with echo and CT guides diagnosis and decision-making for type A aortic dissection.
Why the study?
Does a multimodality imaging approach including 3D TEE improve the detection and decision-making for localized chronic type A aortic dissection?
Does a multimodality imaging approach including 3D TEE improve the detection and decision-making for localized chronic type A aortic dissection?
Three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography can play an important role alongside 2D echocardiography and CT in the decision-making for type A aortic dissection.
Multimodality imaging with 3D TEE may aid localized chronic type A dissection; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
To date, the diagnosis of type A aortic dissection needs a multimodality imaging approach including two-dimensional echocardiography and computed tomography (CT) (64-slice LightSpeed VCT, GE Healthcare, Chalfont St. Giles, United Kingdom) as suggested by the European Society of Cardiology [1]. In this clinical setting, the usefulness of three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) can play an important role in the decision-making.
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Malagoli et al. (2010) studied Type A aortic dissection. Multimodality imaging (2D echocardiography, CT, and 3D TEE) was evaluated. A multimodality imaging approach, including 2D echocardiography, CT, and 3D transoesophageal echocardiography, plays an important role in the diagnosis and decision-making for type A aortic dissection.
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