One-stop-shop cardiac diagnosis in a single heart beat using 320-slice computed tomography: ascending aortic aneurysm, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and mixed valvular heart disease

Abstract

Fig. 1. Three-dimensional colour-coded volume-rendered images (panels A and B) sho dilatation of the main pulmonary artery (PA) with a maximum diameter of 46 mm, an artery, LAD; left circumflex artery, LCx). Multiplanar reformatted images (panels C without relevant subvalvular obstruction. Additional images (panels E—H) demonstrat valve (orifice area 1.1 cm) as well as incomplete closure of both valves (arrows). Co partial commissural fusion of the aortic valve (open arrow) resulting in bicuspid va