Affiliation:
1. From the Cardiology Section, Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky.
Abstract
Utilizing the atrioventricular and semilunar valves as ultrasonic landmarks, a simple reproducible technic is described for the ultrasonic evaluation of the heart and its great vessels in the normal neonate. The importance of the clinical application of this method is discussed.
Echocardiographic studies were performed on 240 normal newborns. Qualitative assessment was made of the interrelationships of the pulmonary, aortic, tricuspid, and mitral valves, and of interventricular septal motion. Quantitative norms were obtained for the following parameters: amplitude of motion of anterior leaflets of tricuspid and mitral valves, anteroposterior diameter of the ventricular and left atrial cavities, thickness of ventricular walls and interventricular septum, outside diameter of aortic and pulmonary roots, and interaortic and interpulmonary cusp distances.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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