作者
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Georgios Giannakoulas, Isaac Bendayan, Emmanouil Liodakis, Ricardo Petraco, Gerhard-Paul Diller, Massimo F Piepoli, Lorna Swan, Michael Mullen, Nicky Best, Philip A Poole-Wilson, Darrel P Francis, Michael B Rubens, Michael A Gatzoulis
发表日期
2013/6/20
期刊
International journal of cardiology
卷号
166
期号
2
页码范围
453-457
出版商
Elsevier
简介
OBJECTIVE
The wide spectrum of intracardiac anatomy and reparative surgery available for adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) makes uniform measurement of cardiac size and disease severity challenging. The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic potential of cardiothoracic ratio, a simple marker of cardiomegaly, in a large cohort of ACHD.
PATIENTS AND SETTING
Chest radiographs from 3033 ACHD patients attending our institution between 1998 and 2007 and 113 normal controls of similar age were analyzed blindly.
DESIGN
Cardiothoracic ratio derived from plain postero-anterior chest radiographs, was compared between ACHD patients and controls, different diagnostic subgroups and different functional classes. Relationship between cardiothoracic ratio and survival was assessed using Cox regression.
RESULTS
Average cardiothoracic ratio in ACHD was 52.0±7.6% (over 50% in 56.4 …
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