Real Time Three‐Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Function in Heart Failure Patients: Underestimation of Left Ventricular Volume Increases with the Degree of Dilatation

Abstract

Compared with CMR, RT3DE is accurate for evaluation of EF and feasible in all our heart failure patients, at the expense of a significant underestimation of LV volumes, particularly when LVEDV is above 120 mL/m(2) .