title: [Value of 2-dimensional echocardiography in symptomatic heart diseases in the newborn infant and in early infancy].
abstract: From January 1980 to March 1983, 73 distressed newborns and young infants, in whom congenital cardiac defects were suspected, were investigated by two-dimensional echocardiography. The diagnosis in these infants could be re-established later by cardiac catheterization and cineangiocardiography, operation or autopsy. Correct diagnoses were set in 97% of the patients (71 out of 73). Specific echocardiographic criteria for the diagnosis of the individual defects are discussed.
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004374:Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / Q000175:diagnosis; D004437:Ebstein Anomaly / Q000175:diagnosis; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006343:Heart Septal Defects / Q000175:diagnosis; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000002:abnormalities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010547:Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000175:diagnosis; D014188:Transposition of Great Vessels / Q000175:diagnosis; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000002:abnormalities; D014339:Truncus Arteriosus, Persistent / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Stellenwert der zweidimensionalen Echokardiographie bei symptomatischen Herzerkrankungen im Neugeborenen- und frühen Säuglingsalter.