Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA.
Curr Opin Cardiol. 2012 Sep;27(5):465-76. doi: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e328356afe9.
To review the utility and the latest developments in three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography of mitral valve prolapse.
Although 3D echocardiography was invented in 1974, it did not gain wide clinical acceptance until the introduction of real-time 3D echocardiography in the first decade of the 21st century. Driven by improvements in probe technology and increases in computing power, 3D echocardiography now provides unprecedented images of mitral valve prolapse and its associated mitral regurgitation with no or minimal requirements for image post processing.
3D echocardiography has become the echocardiographic modality of choice for establishing the diagnosis, describing the precise anatomy, and visualization of mitral regurgitant jets in mitral valve prolapse. 3D echocardiography is becoming indispensable in guiding surgical and percutaneous methods of mitral valve repair and replacement.
综述二尖瓣脱垂的三维（3D）超声心动图的应用及最新进展。
尽管三维超声心动图于 1974 年发明，但直到 21 世纪第一个十年实时三维超声心动图的问世，它才得到广泛的临床认可。随着探头技术的改进和计算能力的提高，三维超声心动图现在可以提供前所未有的二尖瓣脱垂及其相关二尖瓣反流图像，几乎不需要或只需最小程度的图像后处理。
三维超声心动图已成为二尖瓣脱垂诊断、精确解剖描述和二尖瓣反流射流可视化的首选超声心动图方式。三维超声心动图在指导二尖瓣修复和置换的手术和经皮方法中变得不可或缺。
