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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on September 11, 2008
European Journal of Echocardiography 2009 10(2):350-351; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jen228
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Value of live 3D transoesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of mitral valve lesions

Kansei Uno1,*, Katsu Takenaka2, Aya Ebihara2, Kan Nawata3, Naoto Hayashi1, Mika Nagasaki1, Makoto Sonoda4, Ohno Takayuki3, Minoru Ono3, Shunei Kyo3, Ryozo Nagai4 and Shinichi Takamoto3

1 Department of Computational Radiology and Preventive Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Hongo 7-1-3, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
3 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
4 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Received 20 April 2008; accepted after revision 8 August 2008; online publish-ahead-of-print 11 September 2008.

* Corresponding author. Tel: +81 3 3815 5411; fax: +81 3 5800 9106. E-mail address: yang-tky{at}umin.ac.jp


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We experienced a case in which live 3D transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was found much more valuable than 2D TEE in assessing mitral lesions in circumferential direction and making surgical plans for mitral valve prolapse.


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