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Echocardiographic and Color Flow Doppler Assessment of Systemic and Pulmonary Venous Connection and Drainage in the Neonate with Congenital Heart Disease
Author(s) -
SELIEM MOHAMED A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1991.tb01008.x
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , coronary sinus , total anomalous pulmonary venous connection , cardiology , vein , heart disease , lower limbs venous ultrasonography , angiography , pulmonary vein , blood flow , venae cavae , ablation
Systemic and pulmonary venous anomalies are frequently encountered either as isolated lesions or as a significant component of a more complex lesion in the newborn infant with congenital heart disease. Two‐dimensional echocardiography and Doppler techniques (conventional and color flow) have become the primary diagnostic imaging modality in this setting. Precise pre‐operative definition of these variable venous connection and drainage patterns is critical as the required surgical procedure may solely be based on exact understanding of the veins' anatomy and physiology. On the systemic venous site, anomalies of superior and inferior venae cavae, innominate vein, and coronary sinus can be equally well imaged with either echocardiography or angiography. However, on the pulmonary venous site, echocardiography and Doppler techniques including color flow mapping are superior to angiography for precise definition of the connection and drainage sites of the individual pulmonary veins. (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, Volume 8, July 1991)