Digital subtraction angiography in the diagnosis of congenital heart diseases: analysis of 60 cases.
Ninety-one IVDSA and/or IADSA examinations with 192 injections were performed in 60 patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), including 31 anatomic anomalies. Axial projection was used in 23 patients. Analysis of the results of this series showed that accurate diagnosis by DSA confirmed by cardiac surgery together with definite diagnosis by DSA were obtained in 54 cases (90%). Two cases of nondiagnosis by DSA resulted from a suboptimal DSA method; four cases of partially accurate or mistaken diagnosis determined by cardiac surgery occurred because the axial view was not used and/or the anomalies were too small to be visualized by DSA. To increase the diagnostic accuracy of DSA in CHD, an optimal method of DSA must be selected according to the position of the anomaly and the hemodynamic data, and the axial view should be used to visualize the anomaly clearly in complex cases. In addition, DSA may fail to define a mild anomaly because of its lower spatial resolution.
Ouyang
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Department of Interventional Radiology, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's Hospital, Huhehaote, China.
Ma
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Zhou
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Gu
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Liu
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Zhang
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Zhang
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Wang
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Han
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Liu
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity