Journal of the American College of Cardiology
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J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. · Jun 1996
Comparative StudyValidation of three-dimensional echocardiography for quantifying the extent of dyssynergy in canine acute myocardial infarction: comparison with two-dimensional echocardiography.
This study was designed to compare the accuracy of three- and two-dimensional echocardiography for quantifying the extent of abnormal wall motion in experimental acute myocardial infarction, as correlated with the pathologic determination of infarct size. ⋯ Three-dimensional echocardiography is a more accurate means of noninvasively estimating myocardial infarct size in this canine model than two-dimensional echocardiography.