[Detection of right-to-left shunts by one- and twodimensional contrast echocardiography (author's transl)].
33 children with different congenital cardiac malformations--aged one day to twelve and a half years--were investigated by peripheral and central, 1- and 2 dimensional contrast echocardiography. 11 patients were studied during routinely performed cardiac catheterization and 23 in the early postoperative period (one patient pre- and postoperatively.) Contrast echocardiography peripherally performed represents a very sensitive diagnostic method to detect right-to-left shunting at atrial and/or ventricular levels. Quantification of shunts seems to be possible, if standardization can be achieved. Contrast echocardiography centrally performed can detect right-to-left shunts in residual postoperative defects, delineate and identify intra- and extracardiac structures, assess "low-output" states and should be applied in complex cardia malformations.
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006343:Heart Septal Defects / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000175:diagnosis; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male
Nachweis von Rechts-links-Shunts durch ein- und zweidimensional Kontrastechokardiographie.