Comparison of transthoracic and transesophageal three-dimensional echocardiography for assessment of atrial septal defect diameter in children

Assessment of Atrial Septal Defect Size with 3D‐Transesophageal Echocardiography: Comparison with Balloon Method

“…Threedimensional transesophageal echocardiography and balloon sizing were adequately performed in 70 patients before the defect closure. The mean maximal diameter measured by 3D-TEE was 20 ± 15 mm (range [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] while the mean BSD was 22 ± 4.8 mm (range . When comparing the 3D-TEE and transcatheter measurements, there was a good correlation between the two methods (y = 3.15 + 0.77x; r = 0.8).…”

Percutaneous closure of interatrial communications in adults – prospective embolism prevention study with two- and three-dimensional echocardiography

“…3D echocardiography demonstrated the great variability of the shape of the ASD as described before [30,32]. This variability might alter the accuracy of diameter and area calculation by 2D echocardiography and the measurement of the rim by 2D echo.…”

“…1) and the closure devices (Fig. 2), and has the ability to measure the maximal diameter and the systolic and diastolic areas of the defect [30,31]. This is a clear advantage of 3D echocardiography, because 2D echocardiography can not display the diastolic-systolic difference of the intraatrial defect area.…”

Early Experience with Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Guidance of Right Ventricular Biopsy in Children

“…23 (with postprocessing) was shown to be comparable to 2D TEE in determining maximal ASD diameter in patients undergoing device closure of their defects. 24 More recently, real-time 3DE with a matrix array transducer has been shown to be a valuable additive modality for the diagnosis of congenital and acquired heart disease. 25 This new technique has allowed for real-time rendering of 3D images without the use of a rotational device and without lengthy postprocessing of images.…”