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Objective To explore the feasibility of smart-planes fetal heart ( S-planes FH ) in the display of the fetal ventricular outflow views ,and to compare diameters of fetal aorta ( AO) and pulmonary artery (PA) measured using two-dimensional echocardiography(2DE) and S-planes FH . Methods One hundred and eighty-five fetuses with gestational age of 17 - 36 weeks were enrolled . Each fetus had undergone conventional 2DE examination and the three-dimensional fetal cardiac volume datasets were obtained . The volume datasets were analyzed offline using S-planes FH . The diameters of AO and PA were measured by 2DE and S-planes FH ,respectively . Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the correlation between the two methods for measuring the diameters of AO and PA . The consistency of the two methods was verified by Bland-Altman analysis . Results Fetal ventricular outflow views were successfully obtained using S-planes FH in 173 ( 93 .5％ ) cases of 185 fetuses whose ventricular outflow views were satisfactorily obtained by fetal 2DE . There were close correlations between the two methods in measuring the diameters of AO and PA ( r = 0 .84 , P = 0 .04; r = 0 .81 , P = 0 .00 ) . Bland-Altman analysis showed a close consistency between the two methods ,and their 95％ confidence intervals were ( -1 .17 ,1 .00) and ( -1 .79 ,1 .02) ,respectively . Conclusions There is a close consistency between S-planes FH and 2DE in measuring fetal AO and PA . S-planes FH may have potential for the evaluation of fetal ventricular outflow .
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Objective To investigate the value of echocardiography for assessing the right ventricular function before and af ter treatment in the patients with pulmonary embolism.Methods Ninety-six patients with pulmonary embolism in our hospital from June 2014 to December 2015 were selected as the research subjects and divided into low-risk group,intermediate-risk group and high-risk group according to the disease severity.The echocardiographic examination was performed before and after treatment in all cases.Results The pulmonary artery systolic pressure after treatment in the low-risk group was lower than that before treatment (P＜0.05).The transverse diameter of right ventricle,transverse diameter of right ventricle and pulmonary artery systolic pressure after treatment in the intermediate-risk group and high-risk group were lower than those before treatment (P＜0.05).The Tei index after treatment in the low-risk group,intermediate-risk group and high-risk group was lower than that before treatment (P＜ 0.05).The right ventricle ejection fraction (RVEF),right ventricular end-systolic volume (RVESV) and right ventricular end-dias tolic volume (RVEDV) in the low-risk group had no statistically significant difference between before and after treatment.RVEF after treatment in the intermediate-risk group and high-risk group was higher than that before treatment(P＜0.05),while RVESV and RVEDV after treatment were lower than those before treatment (P＜0.05).Conclusion Echocardiography can objectively re flect the change situation of right heart function before and after treatment in the patients with pulmonary embolism,and can be used as an evaluation method for the effect of pulmonary embolism treatment.
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ObjectiveTo investigate the accuracy of automated breast volume scanning (ABVS) for the measurement of breast tumor size.MethodsSixty-two breast tumors in 59 patients were included in this study and were examined using conventional ultrasound and ABVS to measure the maximal diameters of the tumors. And the measurement results were compared with the pathological maximal diameters.Results There were 21 malignant and 41 benign tumors according to histopathological evaluation. There were no signifi cant differences between the maximal diameters on ABVS and on pathological measurements for both benign tumors and malignant tumors (Z=1.761, 0.262,P=0.078, 0.794). However, for malignant tumors, the maximal diameters on conventional ultrasound were significantly smaller than those on pathological measurements (Z=3.743,P=0.000). For benign tumors, the maximal diameters on conventional ultrasound were similar with those on pathological measurements (Z=1.935,P=0.053). The measurement values of conventional ultrasound and ABVS were both positively correlated with those on pathological values (r=0.935, 0.964,r=0.870, 0.964). And the correlation coeffi cients between ABVS and pathological measurement values were higher than those between conventional ultrasound and pathological measurement values for both benign and malignant tumors. ConclusionABVS can assess the size of breast tumor more accurately than conventional ultrasound, especially for the malignant tumors.