Echocardiographic nomograms for chamber diameters and areas in caucasian children

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1279-1292.e2

  Cantinotti, Massimiliano ^a   Scalese, Marco ^b   Murzi, Bruno ^a   Assanta, Nadia ^a   Spadoni, Isabella ^a   De Lucia, Vittoria ^a   Crocetti, Maura ^a   Cresti, Alberto ^c   Gallotta, Milena ^d   Marotta, Marco ^a   Tyack, Karin ^a   Molinaro, Sabrina ^b   Iervasi, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a Ospedale del Cuore   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c Department of Cardiology USL 9 ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Echocardiography; Nomograms

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM DIAMETER; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; INFANT; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MITRAL VALVE; NEWBORN; NOMOGRAM; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; TRICUSPID VALVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; ITALY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84919428584     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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