Open AccessSex-Specific Pediatric Percentiles for Ventricular Size and Mass as Reference Values for Cardiac MRI
Author(s) -
Samir Sarikouch,
Brigitte Peters,
Matthias Gutberlet,
Birte Leismann,
A. Kelter-Kloepping,
H. Koerperich,
Titus Küehne,
Philipp Beerbaum
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.584
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1942-0080
pISSN - 1941-9651
DOI - 10.1161/circimaging.109.859074
Subject(s) - percentile , body surface area , medicine , cardiology , body mass index , heart disease , nuclear medicine , statistics , mathematics
Cardiac MRI is important in the treatment of children with congenital heart disease, but sufficient normative data are lacking. For ventricular volumes and mass, we sought to deliver reference centiles and to investigate sex effects.
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