Progress of echocardiographic assessment in cardiac function of congenital heart disease / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Recently,echocardiography,such as pulsed wave doppler imaging,tissue doppler imaging,strain and strain rate imaging,speckle tracking imaging as well as velocity vector imaging are being more and more widely used in whole and segmental cardiac functional assessment of congenital heart disease( CHD).With its own technical characteristics,each of them shows advantages and weaknesses in different type of CHD.This paper aims to make a brief review of the latest clinical achievements in those techniques.It will be helpful to reasonable selection or application of these techniques,and more importantly,to better guidance for clinical medication,establishment of surgical outline and assessment of cardiac functional outcomes.