The Clinical Benefits of Adding a Third Dimension to Assess the Left Ventricle with Echocardiography

Table 3

Differences between left ventricular mass calculation by three-dimensional echocardiography and conventional two-dimensional echocardiography in comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance.

Author	Mean difference ± SD from CMR (g)
	3DE	2DE
Mor-Avi et al. [63]	−4±17	−39±29
Caiani et al. [62]	−2.1±11.5	−34.9±24.8
Jenkins et al. [72]	0±38	16±57
Jian et al. [65]	−9±33	−15±47
Oe et al. [71]	−14.1±29.1	−10.7±83.7
van den Bosch et al. [70]	2±20	—
Bicudo et al. [108]	−6	—
Takeuchi et al. [73]	−2	—
Pouleur et al. [32]	1±3	—

Abbreviations as in Table 2.