Skip to main content

Table 1 Individual patient MDCT and echocardiogram characteristics

From: A novel parasternal transthoracic echocardiographic window for detecting coronary ostial dilation after modified Bentall surgery

No.

Original pathology

Time to MDCT (months)

Diameters (MDCT)a

Time to echocardiogram (months)

Visible on TTEb

Diameters (TTE)

   

LMA ostium

RCA ostium

 

PS off-axis view (LMA ostium)

PS off-axis view (RCA ostium)

LMA ostium

RCA ostium

1

AR. Dilated aortic root

121

14 mm

13 mm

143

Yes

Yes

10 mm

11 mm

2

Bicuspid AV. AR. Dilated aortic root.

106

14 mm

5 mm

125

No

Yes

-

7 mm

3

AR. Dilated aortic root.

57

13 mm

10 mm

75

Yes

Yes

11 mm

9 mm

4

Bicuspid AV. AR. Dilated aortic root.

107

16 mm

10 mm

113

Yes

Yes

14 mm

15 mm

5

Bicuspid AV. Dilated aortic root.

40

13 mm

9 mm

56

Yes

Yes

11 mm

8 mm

6

Bicuspid AV. Dilated aortic root.

62

10 mm

8 mm

75

Yes

Yes

6 mm

5 mm

7

AR. Dilated aortic root.

101

15 mm

13 mm

113

Yes

Yes

8 mm

9 mm

8

AR. Dilated aortic root.

83

11 mm

17 mm

94

Yes

Yes

9 mm

16 mm

9

Bicuspid AV. Dilated aortic root.

47

26 mm

10 mm

59

No

Yes

-

9 mm

10

AR. Dilated aortic root.

59

11 mm

14 mm

72

Yes

Yes

13 mm

13 mm

11

AR. Dilated aortic root.

115

12 mm

10 mm

124

Yes

Yes

8 mm

8 mm

12

AR. Dilated aortic root.

91

9 mm

14 mm

90

No

No

-

-

13

AR. Dilated aortic root.

75

10 mm

10 mm

84

No

Yes

-

8 mm

14

Bicuspid AV. AR. Dilated aortic root.

25

19 mm

15 mm

32

Yes

Yes

10 mm

10 mm

  1. Abbreviations: AR, aortic regurgitation; AV, aortic valve; MDCT, multi-detector computed tomography; TTE, transthoracic echocardiography; LMA, left main coronary artery; RCA, right coronary artery; PS off-axis view, parasternal off-axis view (a superiorly positioned parasternal short-axis view).
  2. a Mean (±SD) heart rate during MDCT study for the cohort was 65 ± 9 beats per minute (bpm); all patients were in sinus rhythm during MDCT except for patient no. 1, 5, 7 and 11 who were in rate-controlled atrial fibrillation (maximum heart rates during study were 76, 68, 60 and 57 bpm, respectively).
  3. b In the standard TTE acoustic windows, none of the patients’ LMA ostia could be visualized and only five patients’ (no. 1, 7, 11, 12 and 14) RCA ostia could be visualized.