Incremental value of three-dimensional echocardiography over the two-dimensional technique in the assessment of combined sinus of valsalva rupture into the right ventricle and adjacent perimembranous ventricular septal defect

Mustafa I Ahmed; Gulay Gok; Burcu Yuzbas; Joshua Burkhart; Maximiliano German Amado Escañuela; Oluseun O Alli; Navin C Nanda

doi:10.1111/echo.12661

Incremental value of three-dimensional echocardiography over the two-dimensional technique in the assessment of combined sinus of valsalva rupture into the right ventricle and adjacent perimembranous ventricular septal defect

Echocardiography. 2014 Jul;31(6):779-82. doi: 10.1111/echo.12661. Epub 2014 Jun 13.

Authors

Mustafa I Ahmed¹, Gulay Gok, Burcu Yuzbas, Joshua Burkhart, Maximiliano German Amado Escañuela, Oluseun O Alli, Navin C Nanda

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

PMID: 24931316
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12661

Abstract

We describe the incremental value of live/real time three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography over the 2D technique in the assessment of ruptured right sinus of Valsalva into the right ventricle associated with an adjacent perimembranous ventricular septal defect in an elderly patient.

Keywords: congenital heart disease; echocardiography; sinus of Valsalva fistula; sinus of Valsalva rupture; three-dimensional echocardiography; two-dimensional echocardiography; ventricular septal defect.

Publication types

Case Reports
Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Aged
Aortic Rupture / complications*
Aortic Rupture / diagnostic imaging*
Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / methods*
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / complications*
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Male
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Sinus of Valsalva / diagnostic imaging*