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I Móczó

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[Judging the severity of regurgitation in acquired heart defects using color-coded Doppler echocardiography].

In the study, 139 valvular regurgitations of 120 patients (55 mitral and 84 aortic regurgitations) were investigated and compared by means of colour flow mapping and heart catheterization. During the echocardiographic examination, the length and width of the regurgitant jets were measured and the jet area was planimetered besides the subjective grades. The above parameters were correlated with the angiographic grades. Good agreement was found between the results of the two methods. As concerns the different parameters of the regurgitant jets in mitral regurgitation, the most severe (grade IV) category was easily distinguished from the others, while in aortic regurgitation all four categories were differentiated by colour flow mapping. These measurements indicated that colour-coded Doppler echocardiography is a suitable tool for detection of the severity of valvular regurgitations in a noninvasive way.

Aortic Valve Insufficiency↗

Three-year echocardiographic follow-up study on canoeist boys.

The echocardiographic parameters were followed for 3 years in 15 boys aged 13 years on average, who were beginning competitive canoe race training, and were compared with the corresponding data on 17 boys of the same age who did not take part in sports. As compared to non-sporting boys the 13-year-old canoeist boys had a larger left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (46.13 +/- 4.64 mm vs 44.35 +/- 3.06 mm), a thicker left ventricular posterior wall (7.47 +/- 0.74 mm vs 6.47 +/- 1.18 mm) and particularly a thicker interventricular septum (8.33 +/- 1.18 mm vs 7.59 +/- 1.6 mm) just after they began sport, in spite of the fact there were no significant differences between the two groups in age, height, weight and body surface area. The preexisting difference in left ventricular hypertrophy between the two groups increased significantly during the 3-year follow-up period. The thickness of the left ventricular posterior wall in diastole increased to 9.20 +/- 1.01 mm vs 8.24 +/- 0.83 mm (p = 0.006), and that of the interventricular septum to 10.73 +/- 1.58 mm vs 9.59 +/- 1.18 (p = 0.025). The hypertrophic index and the left ventricular mass corresponded to the data given above (9.97 +/- 1.25 mm vs 8.91 +/- 0.94 mm, p = 0.01; and 261 +/- 50.7 g vs 202.83 +/- 45.8, p = 0.002, respectively). The canoeist boys had a slightly larger aortic root diameter at the beginning, and this difference increased and became more significant during the 3 years (29.4 +/- 2.39 mm vs 27.18 +/- 1.88 mm, p = 0.006). There were no significant differences between the two groups in the size of the left atrium, the fractional shortening of the left ventricle and the calculated ejection fraction and stroke volume.

Adolescent↗