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Assessment of the Right Ventricle

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Right ventricular (RV) size and function have been found to be important predictors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with various clinical conditions. However, assessment of the RV using conventional two-dimensional echocardiography is a challenging task due to the complex anatomy and the location of the RV in the chest. Although cardiac magnetic resonance is considered a “gold standard” for RV assessment, the development of three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) opened new exciting opportunities in RV imaging. 3DE has proven accurate in measuring RV volumes and ejection fraction when compared with cardiac magnetic resonance. During the last decade, the added prognostic value of using 3DE to assess RV geometry and function over conventional two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography has been increasingly reported.

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  1. University of Milano-Bicocca, and Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, San Luca Hospital, Milano, Italy

    Denisa Muraru

  2. Department of Echocardiography, Ecocardiografia Americas Medical City, Hospital Samaritano and Cardiologia Proecho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Monica Luiza de Alcantara

  3. Department of Echocardiography, Cardiac Division, Royal Brompton Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Elena Surkova

  4. Tanta Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt

    Basma Elnagar

  5. Department of Cardiology, Tanta University Hospital, Tanta, Egypt

    Basma Elnagar

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    Luigi P. Badano

  2. Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

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  3. University of Milano-Bicocca and Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, San Luca Hospital, Milano, Italy

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Electronic Supplementary Material

Multislice (12-slice) display of transthoracic 3DE data set of the right ventricle. LV left ventricle, RV right ventricle, RVOT right ventricular outflow tract (AVI 14842 kb)

Triplane display of the right ventricle (AVI 8325 kb)

Longitudinal cut plane of a volume-rendered transthoracic data set of the right ventricle to appreciate its anatomy and complex geometry (AVI 9582 kb)

Transversalcut plane of a volume-rendered transthoracic data set of the right ventricle to appreciate its anatomy and complex geometry. AW right ventricular anterior wall, IW right ventricular inferior wall, LV left ventricle, RV right ventricle, RVOT right ventricular outflow tract, TV tricuspid valve (AVI 11485 kb)

Longitudinal cropping of the 3DE right ventricular data set allows to assess the detailed anatomy of the right ventricular cavity and its three components: (1) Inlet; (2) apical trabecular; and (3) outlet. Ao aorta, IVSm membranous interventricular septum, MB moderator band, PV pulmonary valve, RA right atrium, TV tricuspid valve (AVI 600 kb)

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Muraru, D., de Alcantara, M.L., Surkova, E., Elnagar, B. (2019). Assessment of the Right Ventricle. In: Badano, L., Lang, R., Muraru, D. (eds) Textbook of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14032-8_17

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