Cardiac Function in Healthy Infants and Children: Doppler Echocardiographic Evaluation

Overview

Journal Pediatr Cardiol

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Pediatrics

Date 1994 Sep 1

PMID 7997424

Citations 6

Authors

K Hanseus

G Bjorkhem

N R LUNDSTROM

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Abstract

To establish normal values for Doppler-derived parameters of cardiac function, pulsed-wave Doppler recordings from the ascending aorta were obtained in 80 healthy infants and children. Stroke and minute distance, peak velocity, mean acceleration, acceleration and ejection time intervals, and the acceleration/ejection time ratios were measured or calculated from the Doppler recordings. The relations between the Doppler parameters and heart rate, age, and body surface area were analyzed separately for the children below and above 6 months of age. The normal values for the two groups are given as the median and range and as the mean and standard deviations, respectively. For the older age group, strong negative correlations with heart rate were found for stroke distance and ejection time, suggesting that these parameters should be evaluated in relation to heart rate. Intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility were studied in 10 children. Good reproducibility was found for stroke and minute distance, peak velocity, and left ventricular ejection time. For measurements related to acceleration, the reproducibility was less good.

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