What question did this study set out to answer?

To describe a reproducible echocardiographic technique utilizing cardiac valve landmarks and establish normal quantitative cardiac dimensions in healthy neonates.

January 1, 1973CirculationOpen Access

Echocardiography in the Normal Neonate

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Why the study?

What are the normal qualitative and quantitative echocardiographic parameters for the heart and great vessels in normal neonates?

Population

240 normal newborns

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

RSRobert SolingerUniversity of Louisville Hospital FEFrancisco ElblUniversity of Louisville KMKareem MinhasLeicester Royal Infirmary

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Implication

May aid neonatal echo interpretation; leaves open prospective validation against outcomes.

Key Points

To describe a reproducible echocardiographic technique utilizing cardiac valve landmarks and establish normal quantitative cardiac dimensions in healthy neonates.
Conducted echocardiographic evaluations on 240 normal newborn infants.
Used atrioventricular and semilunar valves as ultrasonic landmarks to standardize qualitative and quantitative imaging planes.
Characterized standard qualitative relationships among pulmonary, aortic, tricuspid, and mitral valves, as well as normal interventricular septal motion.
Established normative quantitative dimensions for ventricular cavity diameters, wall and septal thicknesses, valve leaflet excursion amplitudes, and great vessel root diameters.

Structured PICO

What are the normal qualitative and quantitative echocardiographic parameters for the heart and great vessels in normal neonates?

Population

240 normal newborns

Intervention

Echocardiographic evaluation using atrioventricular and semilunar valves as ultrasonic landmarks

Outcome

Qualitative assessment of valve interrelationships and septal motion, and quantitative norms for cardiac parameters (valve motion amplitude, cavity diameters, wall thickness, root diameters)surrogate

The study provides a reproducible technique and establishes quantitative norms for echocardiographic evaluation in normal neonates.

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Solinger et al. (1973) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a822d47f62b5cfb5ab4aa50 https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.47.1.108

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Echocardiography Congenital heart disease adults

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Echocardiography in the Normal Neonate

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