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Echocardiographic Images

.LV: left ventricle; RV: right ventricle; LA: left atrium; AO: aorta: VSD: ventricular septal defect. A) 2D apical long axis view showing the vertricular septal defect. B) 2D color apical long axis view demonstrating the interventricular shunt. C) 3D apical long axis view, perfectly reproducing the septal defect. D) 3D short axis view showing the ventricular septal defect, the degeneration and prolapse of the non-coronary aortic cusp.
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The image (  Figure 1  ) shows the exact correspondence between 2D (A) and 3D (C) echocardiography in the identification of the ventricular septal defect.