Cardiothoracic ratio from postero-anterior chest radiographs: a simple, reproducible and independent marker of disease severity and outcome in adults with …

K Dimopoulos, G Giannakoulas, I Bendayan… - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Cardiothoracic ratio from postero-anterior chest radiographs

K Dimopoulos, G Giannakoulas, M Mullen, I Bendayan… - 2013 - ikee.lib.auth.gr
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 …
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