TY - JOUR
AU - Carroll, John D.
AB - New Drugs and Technologies Rapid Prototyping A New Tool in Understanding and Treating Structural Heart Disease Michael S. Kim, MD; Adam R. Hansgen, BS; Onno Wink, PhD; Robert A. Quaife, MD; John D. Carroll, MD Abstract—As the appreciation of structural heart disease in children and adults has increased and as catheter-based closure procedures are now being performed in clinical practice, cardiovascular physicians have multiple compelling new reasons to better understand cardiac anatomic and spatial relationships. Current 2-dimensional imaging techniques remain limited both in their ability to represent the complex 3-dimensional relationships present in structural heart disease and in their capacity to adequately facilitate often complex corrective procedures. This review discusses the cardiovascular applications of rapid prototyping, a new technology that may not only play a significant role in the planning of catheter-based interventions but also may serve as a valuable educational tool to enhance the medical community’s understanding of the many forms of structural heart disease. (Circulation. 2008;117:2388-2394.) Key Words: computed tomography heart defects, congenital heart septal defects percutaneous closure rapid prototyping ardiovascular physicians and engineers have multiple for visualization, and inability to be tangibly manipulated. The Ccompelling new reasons to better understand cardiac recent development of rapid prototyping, 
TI - Rapid Prototyping A New Tool in Understanding and Treating Structural Heart Disease
JF - Circulation
DO - 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.740977
DA - 2008-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/rapid-prototyping-a-new-tool-in-understanding-and-treating-structural-J68byBwbf1
SP - 2388
EP - 2394
VL - 117
IS - 18
DP - DeepDyve
ER -