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Volumetric analysis of the right ventricle in children with congenital heart defects: comparison of biplane angiography and transthoracic 3-dimensional echocardiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

A. Heusch ,
J. Rübo ,
O. N. Krogmann  and
M. Bourgeois
A. Heusch*
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
J. Rübo
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
O. N. Krogmann
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
M. Bourgeois
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
*
Andreas Heusch, M.D., Dept. of Paediatric Cardiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstr. 5, D-40001 Düsseldorf, PB: 101007, Germany. Tel: 0049–211–8117713; Fax: 0049–211–8116287
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Abstract

Background

Three-dimensional echocardiography is a non-invasive imaging technique. The fact that it permits volumetric analyses independently of geometrical assumptions makes it a putatively useful method for the precise measurement of the volumes of the irregularly shaped right ventricles in children. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of this method and its agreement with angiocardiography based estimates of right ventricular volume in children with congenital heart disease.

Methods

We studied 102 children with congenital heart disease. The angiocardiographic right ventricular volumetry was performed using a biplanar technique using Simpson's rule and corrected with Lange's correction factors. The echo data sets were registered trans-thoracically with a rotating transmitter. Volumes were calculated after manual planimetry by adding the volumes of the individual slices.

Results

Calculation of right ventricular volume echocardiographically was possible only in 34% of patients, mostly infants and toddlers. In comparison to angiocardiography, the measured volumes were 1.1 ±6.9 ml (19.5 ±34.1%) or 6.3±9.4ml (42.5±33.6%) smaller during systole or diastole, respectively. The limits of agreement were −12.5 and 13.6ml, or 12.45 and 25.15ml during systole or diastole, respectively. When plotted to a logarithmical scale, the correlation coefficients r2 were 0.70 for systolic and 0.79 for diastolic measurements.

Conclusion

Transthoracic 3-dimensional echocardiography with a rotating transmitter is feasible for volumetry only in small children. The volumes measured were significantly smaller than the ones calculated from the angiocardiographic images. The correlation between the two methods is moderate.

Keywords

3D-echocardiographyright ventricular volumetrychildrenvolumetric measurements
Type
Original Articles
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 9 , Issue 6 , November 1999 , pp. 577 - 584
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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