Dynamic intracoronary echoes in Kawasaki's disease.
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Acute Disease↗
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R M Gow
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Coarctation of the aorta or subaortic stenosis with atrioventricular septal defect.
Thirty patients are reported with atrioventricular (AV) septal defect and either coarctation of the aorta (C of A) or subaortic stenosis (SAS) or both. All patients had normal left ventricles as assessed by angiography (21 of 30 patients) or necropsy (9 of 30). Three groups were recognized. Groups I and II included 19 patients with AV septal defect (12 complete, 7 partial) and C of A with or without SAS, 11 patients with AV septal defect (5 complete, 6 partial) and SAS. In Group I, preductal C of A was diagnosed in 16 of 19 patients. Concomitant angiographic evidence of SAS was present in 2 cases, the mechanism being exaggerated anterior displacement of the left AV valve. In Group III, at the time of diagnosis left ventricular-aortic peak systolic pressure gradients of greater than 20 mm Hg were present in 9 patients, 2 of whom had gradients greater than 50 mm Hg. Angiographic diagnoses were: discrete fibrous diaphragm in 4, fibromuscular obstruction in 5, dynamic tunnel in 1, and chordae from left AV valve to LV outflow tract in 1. Thus, SAS in AV septal defect is most often due to a discrete anatomic lesion. Hemodynamic data show that SAS can be progressive, both before and after the surgical management of the AV septal defect.
Abnormalities, Multiple↗
The assessment of pulmonary arterial pressures in bronchopulmonary dysplasia by cardiac catheterization and M-mode echocardiography.
Severe (Stage IV) bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) has been associated with pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure, with a mortality rate of 39%. Recently, M-mode echocardiography has been used to measure right-sided systolic time intervals (the ratio of right ventricular pre-ejection period to ejection time; RVPEP/RVET), with a value greater than 0.35 predicting pulmonary hypertension. This measurement has also been used to predict outcome of BPD and response to oxygen therapy. A retrospective study of six infants with Stage IV BPD who had had cardiac catheterizations and M-mode echocardiography is reported. By catheterization criteria, four of the six had pulmonary hypertension. By echocardiographic criteria, only two of the six had unequivocally prolonged RVPEP/RVET ratios, and correlations with mean or diastolic pulmonary arterial pressures were poor (0.069 and 0.255, respectively). The validity of M-mode echocardiography in the assessment of the pulmonary vascular bed in Stage IV BPD is open to debate, and its role in predicting outcome and response to therapy is unknown.
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia↗
Pseudoinfarction pattern in an infant.
A 4-week-old female infant presented with congestive heart failure, moderate mitral regurgitation, and an electrocardiographic pattern of anterolateral myocardial infarction. Angiography revealed normal coronary arteries and moderate mitral regurgitation. A single-catheter electrophysiology study confirmed the presence of an accessory atrioventricular conduction pathway.
Coronary Vessel Anomalies↗