Application of real-time three-dimensional color doppler transthoracic echocardiography on preoperative assessment of patients with structural heart disease
Objective To investigate the diagnostic value of preoperative real-time three-dimensional color Dopplertransthoracic echocardiography on assessment of patients with structural heart disease(SHD). Methods A total of 111 pa-tients were assessed preoperatively using real-time three-dimensional color Doppler transthoracic echocardiography(RT-3D-CDTTE), which include 31 SHD patients and 80 patients without SHD that were designed as negative control. Conven-tional two-dimensional color Doppler transthoracic echoc...