Can transthoracic live 3-dimensional echocardiography improve the recognition of midventricular obliteration in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy?

Cesare de Gregorio; Antonino Recupero; Patrizia Grimaldi; Sebastiano Coglitore

doi:10.1016/j.echo.2006.04.031

Can transthoracic live 3-dimensional echocardiography improve the recognition of midventricular obliteration in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy?

J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2006 Sep;19(9):1190.e1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.04.031.

Authors

Cesare de Gregorio¹, Antonino Recupero, Patrizia Grimaldi, Sebastiano Coglitore

Affiliation

¹ Clinical and Experimental Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, University Hospital of Messina, Messina, Italy. [email protected]

PMID: 16950476
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.04.031

Abstract

In this report the authors analyzed the usefulness of live 3-dimensional echocardiography in association with conventional 2-dimensional method to improve the recognition of left ventricular midcavitary obliteration in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / complications*
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnostic imaging*
Computer Systems
Echocardiography / methods*
Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / methods*
Humans
Image Enhancement / methods*
Male
Middle Aged
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / etiology*