Contrast echocardiography in cyanotic heart malformations
Glaser, J.
Harefuah 99(1-2): 3-4
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0017-7768 PMID: 7450592 Document Number: 155055
Contrast echocardiography is used for the diagnosis and follow-up of congenital heart malformations with right-to-left shunts. To assess the usefulness and validity of the method, it was performed on 27 neonates, infants and children with proven cyanotic cardiac malformations. It was useful in the following conditions: transposition of the great vessels before and after atrial septostomy and following Mustard surgery; in tetralogy of Fallot, to show the presence of a right-to-left ventricular shunt, qualitatively and quantitatively; in severe pulmonic stenosis, to demonstrate the presence of an atrial right-to-left shunt; in Eisenmenger syndrome, to demonstrate a significant right-to-left ventricular shunt; in neonates with persistent fetal circulation, to show an atrial right-to-left shunt; and in complicated congenital cyanotic malformations, to demonstrate right-to-left atrial or ventricular shunts, occasional left-to-right ventricular shunts and the patency of valves or the presence of ventricles.