Yu-Ru Yang1, Meng-Chu Chang1, Ming-Ting Wu2, Ken-Pen Weng3, and Hsu-Hsia Peng1
1Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 3Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 3Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
The systolic kinetic energy may provide earlier evidence of abnormal
aortic flow before serious aortic regurgitation in repaired tetralogy of Fallot
patients.
Figure 2.
The
(a) peak diameter index, (b)
regurgitation fraction, (c) systolic kinetic energy and (d) systolic viscous
energy loss in 14 planes of normal, rTOF1, and rTOF2 groups.
*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001,
rTOF1 and rTOF2 patients compared to normal volunteers.
†p<0.05,
† † p<0.01, † † † p<0.001, rTOF1 patients compared to
rTOF2 patients.
Table 1. Demographic
characteristics
of the study population.