Tong Pang#, Li Jiang#, Yi Zhang, Mengxi Yang, Jin Wang, Yuan Li*, Zhigang Yang*
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 479-489, 2022, DOI:10.32604/chd.2022.020401
Abstract Background: To evaluate the qualitative and quantitative differences between intracardiac and extracardiac vascular malformations in patients with a single atrium (SA), single ventricle (SV) and single atrium-single ventricle
(SA-SV) using dual-source CT (DSCT), and to compare the diagnostic performances of DSCT and transthoracic
echocardiography (TTE). Methods: This retrospective study included 24 SA, 75 SV and 24 SA-SV patients who
underwent both DSCT and TTE before surgery. The diagnostic values of DSCT and TTE for intracardiac and
extracardiac malformations were compared according to the surgical results. The diameters of the major artery
and vein were measured and calculated based on DSCT… More >
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