Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in a patient with Ostium Secundum interatrial defect.

M a i l i n g A d d r e s s : m a r c e l o l . C . v i e i r a • R u a C a r d o s o d e M e l o , 4 6 3 / 2 1 0 4 5 4 8 0 0 2 S ã o P a u l o , S P B r a z i l Email: [email protected] Received in 05/17/05 Accepted in 07/25/05 The use of three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography enables us to examine the heart structure in detail from new planes of observation1,2. We describe the case of a 24-year-old female patient with a previous history of cardiac murmur, and who was submitted to echocardiographic probe. We performed a multiplane transesophageal bidimensional echocardiography (fig. 1), and with base on the bidimensional images we performed the three-dimensional transesophageal reconstruction