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- Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) offers clear imaging of the mitral valve, especially useful for procedures and understanding valve conditions.
- Recent advancements in 3D TEE technology enhance visualization of the mitral valve, allowing real-time, detailed views during surgeries.
- The ability to perform offline analysis improves the understanding of both healthy and diseased mitral valves, impacting treatment outcomes significantly.
Article Abstract
Transesophageal echocardiography provides excellent visualization of the posteriorly located mitral valve. Over the last decade, 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (3D TEE) has emerged as an exciting imaging modality, particularly of the mitral valve. The current generation matrix array technology allows the operator to perform 2D and 3D imaging with a single transducer. 3D TEE affords the unique ability to view the mitral valve and its surrounding structures "en face" in real time (RT), and provide contextual anatomical guidance during surgical and transcatheter interventions. Additionally, offline quantification has made significant contributions to our mechanistic understanding of the normal and diseased mitral valve, and alterations induced by therapeutic intervention such as surgical repair. This review will address recent advances in the incremental role of 3D TEE in mitral valve imaging.
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