ABSTRACT
Objective To evaluate their roles of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), cardiovascular digital imaging (CVDI) and electron beam computed tomography (EBT) in the diagnosis of complex congenital heart dieases (CHD).Methods Twenty-one patients with CHD were studied, including 12 cases of boys and 9 cases of girls. Fourteen cases of them underwent surgery. All of them were examined by two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE) , color Doppler flow imaging (CDFI) and EBT, 11 cases of them were examined by CVDI.Results The rate of coincidence between EBT and CVDI in diagnosing complex CHD was 93.3% (28/30). The accurate rate of TTE and CVDI in diagnosing complex CHD was 77.8% (35/45) and 93.3% (42/45) respectively.Conclusion In diagnosing complex CHD,combination EBT with TTE can replace the technique of CVDI partially.