Clinical value of patient-specific three-dimensional printing of congenital heart disease: Quantitative and qualitative assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Current diagnostic assessment tools remain suboptimal in demonstrating complex morphology of congenital heart disease (CHD). This limitation has posed several challenges in preoperative planning, communication in medical practice, and medical education. This study aims to investigate the dimensional accuracy and the clinical value of 3D printed model of CHD in the above three areas.

Methods

Using cardiac computed tomography angiography (CCTA) data, a patient-specific 3D model of a 20-month-old boy with double outlet right ventricle was printed in Tango Plus material. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to evaluate correlation of the quantitative measurements taken at analogous anatomical locations between the CCTA images pre- and post-3D printing. Qualitative

SUBMITTER: Lau IWW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5862481 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature