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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000; 48(6): 328-335
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-8344
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Imaging in Adults with Congenital Cardiac Disease (ACCD)[*]

H. Kaemmerer1 , H. Stern1 , S. Fratz1 , M. Prokop3 , M. Schwaiger2 , J. Hess1
  • 1German Heart Center, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Munich, Germany
  • 2Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Munich, Germany
  • 3University of Vienna, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Vienna, Austria
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31 December 2000 (online)

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Management of patients with congenital heart disease requires detailed information on cardiac and great vessel morphology. In previous years, the diagnosis and the treatment of congenital malformations has often depended on cardiac catherization, and in many institutions, cardiac catherization still remains the gold standard against which other modalities are measured. In the past decade, however, imaging methodologies have increasingly shifted toward the use of less invasive and noninvasive techniques. Currently, echocardiography is the initial method of choice in evaluating the anatomy, especially in younger patients. Meanwhile, several newer imaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spiral or multislice computed tomography (CT) are in use. They offer extremely useful information about abnormalities of the heart and great vessels as well as the assessment of cardiac anatomy and function. Echo, angiography, MRI and CT should be seen as complimentary investigations in adult congenital heart disease.

Key words:

Adults with congenital cardiac disease - Echocardiography - Magnetic resonance imaging - Computed tomography

1 This paper has been presented at the 3rd Joint Meeting of the German, the Austrian, and Swiss Societies for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lucerne, February 9-12, 2000.

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1 This paper has been presented at the 3rd Joint Meeting of the German, the Austrian, and Swiss Societies for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lucerne, February 9-12, 2000.

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