Cardiovascular magnetic resonance normal values in children for biventricular wall thickness and mass.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric patients are becoming increasingly referred for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). Measurement of ventricular wall thickness is typically part of the assessment and can be of diagnostic importance, e.g. in arterial hypertension. However, normal values for left ventricular (LV) and right ventricular (RV) wall thickness in pediatric patients are lacking. The aim of this study was to establish pediatric centile charts for segmental LV and RV myocardial thickness in a retrospective multicenter CMR study.

Methods

CMR was performed in 161 healthy children and adolescents with an age range between 6 and 18 years from two centers in the UK and Germany as well as from a previously published CMR project of the German Competence Network for Congenital Heart D

SUBMITTER: Krupickova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7780624 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature