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INTRODUCTION
Author(s) -
Masoud Rokni
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1974.tb07543.x
Subject(s) - citation , medicine , information retrieval , library science , world wide web , computer science
Working with cardiology in infants and children the advantages of a non-invasive method are easily understood. Since many years ultrasound in diagnostic cardiology in adults has been used at the University hospital in Lund because of the pioneer work made by Edler and Hertz (34). It seemed likely that its application would be useful even in infants and children and a preliminary study was performed. The results of this have been reported previously (95, 100) and since they seemed promising a more systematic evaluation was carrried out. The aim of this was to evaluate the clinical usefulnes of echocardiography (formerly called ultra-sound cardiography) in pediatric cardiology. The study was concentrated on examination of the mitral valve region, the tricuspid valve region and the measurement of various intracardiac distances. One part of the study was devoted to an evaluation of the reproducibility of these various measurements and to an investigation of infants and children without heart disease to form a normal material. For the intracardiac distance measurements some reference method was necessary. As such, angiocardiography was the natural choice since this method is part of the routine investigation of an infant or child with heart disease.