Echocardiographic diagnosis alone for the complete repair of major congenital heart defects

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作者
Tworetzky, W
McElhinney, DB
Brook, MM
Reddy, VM
Hanley, FL
Silverman, NH
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[1] Univ Calif San Francisco, Div Pediat Cardiol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Francisco, Div Cardiothorac Surg, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
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10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00518-X
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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Objectives. The study was done to determine the diagnostic accuracy of echocardiography alone in the preoperative diagnosis of children with major congenital heart defects undergoing primary complete repair. Background. Although echocardiography is well established as the first-line imaging technique for the diagnosis of all forms of congenital heart disease, most institutions continue to perform cardiac catheterization prior to complete repair of more complex defects. Methods. To determine the diagnostic accuracy of echocardiography alone and echocardiography plus catheterization, we reviewed the records of 503 children with major congenital heart defects who underwent primary complete repair at our institution between July 1992 and June 1997. We included children with transposition of the great arteries, tetralogy of Fallot, double chamber right ventricle, interrupted aortic arch, aortic coarctation, atrioventricular septal defect, truncus arteriosus, aortopulmonary septal defect, and totally anomalous pulmonary venous return. We excluded children with less complex defects such as isolated shunt lesions, as well as those with the most complex defects that would require surgical palliation (e.g., functional univentricular heart). We defined major errors as those that increased the surgical risk and minor errors as those that did not. Errors in diagnosis were determined at surgery. Results. Eighty two percent of children (412 of 503) underwent surgery after preoperative diagnosis by echocardiography alone. There were 9 major (2%) and 10 minor errors in the echocardiography alone group and 7 major and 5 minor errors in the echocardiography plus catheterization group. The most common type of error was misidentification of coronary artery anatomy in patients with transposition of the great arteries. No error in either group resulted in surgical morbidity or mortality. Conclusions. This study suggests that echocardiography alone is an accurate tool for the preoperative diagnosis of major congenital heart defects in most children undergoing primary complete repair, and may obviate the need for routine diagnostic catheterization. (C) 1998 by the American College of Cardiology.
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