Role of Electrocardiogram-Gated Multidetector Computed Tomography in diagnosis of congenital heart disease.

Abstract

Congenital heart disease is one of the most sophisticated areas of diagnostic radiology. Accurate evaluation of the cardiac and extra cardiac anatomy is critical for the clinical management of congenital cardiac anomalies. Echocardiography (ECHO) is the first-line screening modality of cardiac imaging. It shows limitation in assessment of extracardiac vascular structures which ECG gated MDCT gives precise information about. MDCT is a useful noninvasive technique used with high spatial resolution with ability to use reconstructed images. Our aim in this study was to assess the role of ECG gated multidetector Computed Tomography in detection and characterization of congenital heart diseases. In our study the role of Multi-detector CT angiography in the evaluation of cardiac and extra cardiac great vessels anomalies were assessed, it enrolled 30 patients (13 males and 17 females) with an age range between 3days -18 years. All patients included in this study referred for ECG gated MDCT after Echo was done.