The Value of Three Dimensional Echocardiography in Congenital Cardiac Surgery

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Congenital Heart Disease

Treatments: Other: Observational

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02408848

2015/06JAN/006

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are few studies evaluating the value of 3D echocardiography in children undergoing congenital cardiac surgery. The aim of this observational study is to describe common and uncommon congenital malformations with the help of 3D echo and compare the findings and the measurements with those obtained with conventional 2D echo.

Enrollment: 9 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 hours to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children requiring general anesthesia for congenital heart surgery and in whom informed parental consent has been obtained

Exclusion criteria

• Children with congenital heart disease who do not require heart surgery