Srinivasa R. Aaluri

Transesophageal Echocardiographic Identification of Left Subclavian Artery Stenosis with Steal Phenomenon

In this report, we present the first case of the transesophageal echocardiographic identification of left subclavian artery stenosis and steal phenomenon.

Transpharyngeal Echocardiographic Imaging of the Right and Left Carotid Arteries

We present a technique for transpharyngeal imaging of the bilateral carotid arteries completed towards the end of a transesophageal echocardiogram. To our knowledge, this is the first report that demonstrates the bifurcation of the right common carotid artery into the right internal and external carotid arteries with a transesophageal echocardiographic probe.

Three‐Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment of Aortic Dissection

In the present study, we report our experience of using three‐dimensional reconstruction of transesophageal two‐dimensional echocardiographic images in the assessment of aortic dissection (22 patients), aortic rupture (1 patient), aortic aneurysm without dissection (2 patients), and aortic tumor (1 patient).

Transesophageal Three‐Dimensional Color Doppler Echocardiographic Reconstruction of the Left Vertebral Artery

We present a patient in whom we successfully reconstructed a long segment of the proximal left vertebral artery in three dimensions using color Doppler transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Three‐dimensional (3‐D) color Doppler TEE may complement two‐dimensional (2‐D) TEE by its ability to view cross sections of the left vertebral artery at any desired level from the 3‐D data stored in the computer.

Transesophageal Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Traumatic Rupture of the Noncoronary Cusp of the Aortic Valve

We report a patient with traumatic aortic valve injury in whom a large defect in the noncoronary cusp of the aortic valve was clearly visualized by multiplane TEE and confirmed at surgery.

Three-dimensional color Doppler transpharyngeal echocardiographic reconstruction of the left common, internal, and external carotid arteries.

To our knowledge, we report the first cases of successful three‐dimensional reconstruction of the left common, internal, and external carotid arteries using color Doppler transpharyngeal echocardiography.