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• Eustachian valves were examined from the parasternal short axis, apical four-chamber, and subcostal sagittal and coronal views.

• Future studies acquired from the subcostal position, or modifications in design of transducers may eliminate the bias towards underestimation.

• Sweeping the transducer posteriorly to anteriorly from the subcostal window is helpful in clarifying the origin of the pulmonary trunk and its branches.

• The atrial septum is best identified with subcostal four chamber sections.

• This morphology is well seen in oblique subcostal sections.

• This subcostal right anterior oblique section is from a patient with a perimembranous defect opening to the outlet portion of the right ventricle.

• Thus, the diameter of the descending aorta was measured at the level of the diaphragm from a subcostal view.

• All these abnormalities can be identified during infancy from subcostal paracoronal sections taken anterior to the atrioventricular valves.

• Echocardiographic diagnosis was established using the short-axis view of the abdomen and multiples cuts from subcostal and apical views.

• Then the standard subcostal four-chamber view was obtained to identify the atrial septum and both the atrioventricular valves.

• Subcostal coronal views (using anterior angulation) can also be used in infancy.

• From a subcostal position, the whole ventricle can be imaged in the majority of small children, but only very occasionally in older children.

• These features can be demonstrated by cross-sectional echocardiography from the subcostal position.

• In newborns and infants, this anatomy is revealed particularly well from the subcostal window.

• An alternative would be to place the right ventricle into the far field of the imaging sector by imaging from the subcostal position.