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Incremental value of live/real time three‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography over the two‐dimensional technique in assessing carcinoid heart disease involving the aortic valve |
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| Authors: | Bulur Serkan MD Ming C Hsiung MD Navin C Nanda MD Shalaka Hardas MBBS Ahmed Mohamed MBBCh Ahmed ElKaryoni MBBCh Swetha Srialluri MBBS Kirolos Barssoum MBBCh Mahmoud Elsayed MBBCh Jeng Wei MD MSD Wei‐Hsian Yin MD PhD |
| Institution: | 1. Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama;2. Division of Cardiology, Cheng Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan;3. Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang‐Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Abstract: | We present a case of an adult with metastatic carcinoid heart disease, in whom live/real time three‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography provided incremental value over two‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography in assessing involvement of the aortic valve. |
| Keywords: | aortic valve carcinoid heart disease echocardiography pulmonary valve three‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography tricuspid valve two‐dimensional transthoracic echocardiography |