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J Am Soc Echocardiogr · Sep 1997
Case ReportsMorphology and dynamic change of discrete subaortic stenosis can be imaged and quantified with three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography.
- S Ge, J G Warner, K M Fowle, N D Kon, R F Brooker, A M Nomeir, and D W Kitzman.
- Department of Internal Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, NC 27157-1045, USA.
- J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1997 Sep 1;10(7):713-6.
AbstractThis report describes three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic findings in three consecutive patients with discrete subaortic stenosis. The discrete subaortic stenosis lesions included a circumferential, a remnant crescent, and a broken fibrotic subaortic membrane. The lesions were best imaged by using a three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography-generated "aortotomy view" of the left ventricular outflow tract immediately below the plane of the aortic valve. The three-dimensional images correlated well with surgical and pathologic findings. The three-dimensional surface areas of the left ventricular outflow tract at the level of discrete subaortic stenosis during systole (0.8 +/- 0.5 cm2) and diastole (1.7 +/- 0.7 cm2) were measured by planimetry of the three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic images. The novel "aortotomy view" offered by three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography provided direct visualization and quantification of discrete subaortic stenosis in a dynamic fashion. In summary, three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography can accurately display and quantify discrete subaortic stenosis and could be a new clinically useful tool for assessing discrete subaortic stenosis and guiding surgical and transcatheter interventions.
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