3D: ADDED VALUE OF THE NEW DIMENSION IN TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
OF CHRONIC TYPE B AORTIC DISSECTIONS
Abstract
The 3D TEE is a powerful imaging tool that now is the standard of care
in the evaluation of heart valve disease, in guiding the percutaneous
catheter-based procedures and in learning functional anatomy. 3DTEE
provides incremental information over 2DTEE in patients with aortic
aneurysm and dissection type A 1. In literature there
are few data about the contribute of the third dimension in the
transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in type B aortic dissections and
there are described during thoracic endovascular aortic repair
2;3.