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Three-dimensional echocardiography: coming of age
1 The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Correspondence to:
Dr R M Lang, University of Chicago MC5084, 5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA; rlang@bsd.uchicago.edu
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Echocardiography has become an essential clinical tool in cardiology practice because it is routinely used to diagnose a multitude of disease processes. The forces driving the evolution of echocardiography over five decades are worldwide research efforts resulting in exponential advances in ultrasound, electronics and computer technology. The fruit of these efforts is three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE), which was initially based on tedious and time-consuming offline reconstructions from ECG and respiratory-gated acquisition, but since the last decade effortlessly achieved in real time using matrix array transducer technology.1 The article by Hare and colleagues published in the April issue of Heart2 focused on the impact that information on left ventricular (LV) volumes and ejection fraction (EF) obtained from 3DE images might have on clinical decision-making. The results of this interesting study highlight once again the clinical benefits of this exciting new technology to both individual patients and the healthcare system as a whole.
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