Left Atrial Volume: Comparison of 2D and 3D Transthoracic Echocardiography with ECG-gated CT Angiography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-68

  Koka, Anish R ^a   Gould, Stuart D ^a   Owen, Alyson N ^a   Halpern, Ethan J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area length method; Automatic chamber reconstruction; CT angiography; Echocardiography; Left atrial volume; Left atrium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTOGRAPHY; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82955247872     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.08.017     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Nagueh S.F., Appleton C.P., Gillebert T.C., et al. Recommendations for the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function by echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2009, 22:107-133.
2. Zoghbi W.A., Enriquez-Sarano M., Foster E., et al. American Society of Echocardiography. Recommendations for evaluation of the severity of native valvular regurgitation with two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2003, 16:777-802.
3. Montefusco A., Biasco L., Blandino A., et al. Left atrial volume at MRI is the main determinant of outcome after pulmonary vein isolation plus linear lesion ablation for paroxysmal-persistent atrial fibrillation. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 2010, 11:593-598.
4. Benjamin E.J., D'Agostino R.B., Belanger A.J., et al. Left atrial size and the risk of stroke and death: the Framingham heart study. Circulation 1995, 92:835-841.
5. Bolca O., Akdemir O., Eren M., et al. Left atrial maximum volume is a recurrence predictor in lone atrial fibrillation: an acoustic quantification study. Jpn Heart J 2002, 43:241-248.
6. Di Tullio M.R., Sacco R.L., Sciacca R.R., et al. Left atrial size and the risk of ischemic stroke in an ethnically mixed population. Stroke 1999, 30:2019-2024.
7. Moller J.E., Hillis G.S., Oh J.K., et al. Left atrial volume: a powerful predictor of survival after acute myocardial infarction. Circulation 2003, 107:2207-2212.
8. Beinart R., Boyko V., Schwammenthal E., et al. Long-term prognostic significance of left atrial volume in acute myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 2004, 44:327-334.
9. Modena M.G., Muia N., Sgura F.A., et al. Left atrial size is the major predictor of cardiac death and overall clinical outcome in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy: a long-term follow-up study. Clin Cardiol 1997, 20:553-560.
10. Kircher B., Abbott J.A., Pau S., et al. Left atrial volume determination by biplane two-dimensional echocardiography: validation by cine computed tomography. Am Heart J 1991, 121:864-871.
11. Jarvinen V., Kupari M., Hekali P., et al. Assessment of left atrial volumes and phasic function using cine magnetic resonance imaging in normal subjects. Am J Cardiol 1994, 73:1135-1138.
12. Lang R.M., Bierig M., Devereux R.B., et al. Chamber Quantification Writing Group; American Society of Echocardiography's Guidelines and Standards Committee; European Association of Echocardiography. Recommendations for chamber quantification: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography's Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Chamber Quantification Writing Group, developed in conjunction with the European Association of Echocardiography, a branch of the European Society of Cardiology. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2005, 18:1440-1463.
13. Rodevand O., Bjornerheim R., Ljosland M., et al. Left atrial volumes assessed by three and two-dimensional echocardiography compared to MRI estimates. Int J Card Imaging 1999, 15:397-410.
14. Keller A.M., Gopal A.S., King D.L. Left and right atrial volume by freehand three-dimensional echocardiography: in vivo validation using magnetic resonance imaging. Eur J Echocardiogr 2000, 1:55-65.
15. Artang R., Migrino R.Q., Harmann L., et al. Left atrial volume measurement with automated border detection by 3-dimensional echocardiography: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging. Cardiovasc Ultrasound 2009, 7:16.
16. Koka A.R., Yau J., Van Why C., et al. Underestimation of left atrial size measured with transthoracic echocardiography compared with 3D MDCT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2010, 194:W375-W381.
17. Christiaens L., Lequeux B., Ardilouze P., et al. A new method for measurement of left atrial volumes using 64-slice spiral computed tomography: comparison with two-dimensional echocardiographic techniques. Int J Cardiol 2009, 131:217-224.