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Review
. 2022 Mar 25;12(4):806.
doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12040806.

Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Assessment of Right Ventricular Volumes and Function: Technological Perspective and Clinical Application

Ashfaq Ahmad  1   2   3 , He Li  1   2   3 , Yanting Zhang  1   2   3 , Juanjuan Liu  1   2   3 , Ying Gao  1   2   3 , Mingzhu Qian  1   2   3 , Yixia Lin  1   2   3 , Luyang Yi  1   2   3 , Li Zhang  1   2   3   4 , Yuman Li  1   2   3 , Mingxing Xie  1   2   3   4   5
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Review

Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Assessment of Right Ventricular Volumes and Function: Technological Perspective and Clinical Application

Ashfaq Ahmad et al. Diagnostics (Basel). .

Abstract

Right ventricular (RV) function has important prognostic value in a variety of cardiovascular diseases. Due to complex anatomy and mode of contractility, conventional two-dimensional echocardiography does not provide sufficient and accurate RV function assessment. Currently, three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) allows for an excellent and reproducible assessment of RV function owing to overcoming these limitations of traditional echocardiography. This review focused on 3DE and discussed the following points: (i) acquisition of RV dataset for 3DE images, (ii) reliability, feasibility, and reproducibility of RV volumes and function measured by 3DE with different modalities, (iii) the clinical application of 3DE for RV function quantification.

Keywords: cardiac magnetic resonance; ejection fraction; right ventricular function; right ventricular volumes; three-dimensional echocardiography.

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Conflict of interest statement

All the author declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Shows the process of Auto RV analysis. (A) retrieving the RV focus three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) data set aiming for RV analysis, (B) the software automatically adjusts the five landmarks: 4C LV and RV (a); 2C LV and RV (b) and basal SAX (c), (C) and the software automatically determine the RV border at 4C view (a); at end-diastole (b); end-systole (c) and retrieve the global analysis (d). (D) and provide the results within 15 s.
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