TY - JOUR ID - TI - Comparing Certain Echocardiographic Measurements with Catheterization in Children with Pulmonary Hypertension due to Left‑to‑Right Cardiac Shunt AU - Haider Sahib Humady Tuky, Mohanad Kudhair Shukur Alghanimi1, Ban Abbas Semender2 PY - 2020 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 79 EP - 83 JO - Medical Journal of Babylon مجلة بابل الطبية SN - 1812156X 23126760 AB - Background: Children with left‑to‑right cardiac shunt are at increasing risk of developing pulmonary hypertension and it's degreewill guides the line of management of those patients. However, cardiac catheterization is the standard way to investigate PHT, andechocardiography shows an increasing role in diagnosis. Objectives: To check the consistency of noninvasive echocardiographicparameters with that is measured by conventional cardiac catheterization in assessing children with pulmonary hypertension dueto congenital heart disease (PHT-CHD). Materials and Methods: This prospective cross‑sectional study included 60 children withPHT‑CHD we assessed six echocardiographic parameters; pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), mean pulmonary artery pressure (MPAP),pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP), pulmonary to systemic flow (QP/QS), acceleration time of right ventricular outflow tract,and shunt gradients. Then these data were compared with same catheterization parameters. Results: There insignificant differenceamong PVR, MPAP, PCWP, and QP/QS measured by catheterization and the same parameters measured by echocardiography withP > 0.05. The total sensitivity of echocardiographic measurements was 94.23%, specificity 91.45%, positive predictive value 90.71%,and negative predictive value 87.35%. Conclusion: Echocardiographic measurements show respectable similarity to catheterizationresults in patients with PHT‑CHD.

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