the pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation and aids in the planning of reparative surgery.
Three-dimensional (3D) transthoracic echocardiographic data sets acquired with current
scanners have enough spatial and temporal resolution to allow the quantitative analysis of
the mitral annulus. Accordingly, the authors performed (1) a validation study to assess the
agreement of quantitative analysis of the mitral annulus performed on 3D transthoracic …