Real Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Evaluation of Intracardiac Masses

• Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 207 - 219
• Main Authors: Zaragosa-Macias, Elisa, Chen, Michael A., Gill, Edward A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.02.2012
• Subjects: Adult; cardiac imaging; cardiac metastasis; cardiac tumor; Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional - methods; Echocardiography, Transesophageal - methods; Female; Heart Diseases - diagnostic imaging; Heart Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Heart Neoplasms - pathology; Heart Neoplasms - secondary; Humans; Male; three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography; three-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography; thrombolysis; Thrombosis - diagnostic imaging
• ISSN: 0742-2822; 1540-8175; 1540-8175
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01627.x

The evaluation of cardiac masses is often a challenge for cardiac imaging techniques. The traditional standby has been two‐dimensional echocardiography (2DE). Real time three‐dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) offers incremental value for the evaluation of intracardiac masses by providing more accurate assessment of the size and shape of the mass as well as in some cases, composition of the mass. RT3DE aids with the relationship between the mass and adjacent structures. Therefore, here we discuss the subject of RT3DE evaluation of cardiac masses is reviewed and discussed in detail. (Echocardiography 2012;29:207‐219)