Congenital heart disease in adults and adolescents: comparative value of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography and MR imaging
| Autor: | U C Hoppe, Udo Sechtem, B. Dederichs, H. J. Deutsch, Peter Theissen, H Schicha |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Heart Defects Congenital Male Thorax medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Heart disease medicine.medical_treatment Magnetic resonance angiography medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Postoperative Period Esophagus Aged Retrospective Studies Cardiac catheterization medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging Retrospective cohort study Middle Aged medicine.disease Mr imaging medicine.anatomical_structure Echocardiography Evaluation Studies as Topic cardiovascular system Female Radiology business Echocardiography Transesophageal Magnetic Resonance Angiography |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 199:669-677 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| Popis: | To compare the diagnostic value of transesophageal echocardiography and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with that of transthoracic echocardiography in the evaluation of congenital heart disease in adults and adolescents.Corresponding transesophageal echocardiographic and MR images obtained in 61 patients (aged 14-74 years; 28 female, 33 male) with congenital cardiac abnormalities were analyzed retrospectively. Results were compared with those of transthoracic echocardiography in all patients and were confirmed by using cardiac catheterization (n = 41) and/or surgery (n = 41).of the 344 abnormalities detected with at least one imaging technique, 259 were demonstrated with transthoracic echocardiography. Transesophageal echocardiography depicted the atrioventricular junction and atrial structures the best. MR imaging was the only technique to fully depict 31 extracardiac abnormalities. In complex cardiac defects, the combination of all three imaging techniques was best.Transesophageal echocardiography and MR imaging are beneficial complementary imaging techniques in adults or adolescents with congenital heart disease. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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