PubMed · 7202890
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P L Prati, A Boccanelli, G Gambelli. 1980. [Does echocardiography replace the "invasive" tests?].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7202890/
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A case report of left pericardial absence in a 12-year-old boy is described. The suspected diagnosis was not shown either by cross-sectional echocardiography or angiography, but was correctly established by computed tomography (CT), showing the effectiveness of this diagnostic test for diagnosis of pericardial defects.
Use of data base techniques to store medical records has been going on for more than 40 years. Some aspects still remain unresolved, e.g., the management of textual data and image data within a single system. Object-orientation techniques applied to a database management system (DBMS) allow the definition of suitable data structures (e.g., to store digital images): some facilities allow the use of predefined structures when defining new ones. Currently available object-oriented DBMS, however, still need improvements both in the schema update and in the query facilities. This paper describes a prototype of a medical record that includes some multimedia features, managing both textual and image data. The prototype here described considers data from the medical records of patients subjected to percutaneous transluminal coronary artery angioplasty. We developed it on a Sun workstation with a Unix operating system and ONTOS as an object-oriented DBMS.