Limitation of Transthoracic Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Diseases
JARUPIM SOONGSWANG, M.D.*, APICHART NANA, M.D.*, DUANGMANEE LAOHAPRASITIPORN, M.D.*, KRITVIKROM DURONGPISITKUL, M.D.*, CHARUWAN KANGKAGATE, B.Sc., M.S. (Biostat)**, WANDEE ROCHANASIRI, B.Sc. (Nursing)**, TEIRANACH KOVITCHAROENTRAKUL, B.Sc. (Nursing)**
Affiliation : *Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, ** Her Majesty Cardiac Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700. Thailand.
Keywords : Abstract Nowadays, it has been widely accepted that echocardiography is the most efficient, non invasive diagnostic tool to diagnose congenital heart diseases. However, cardiac catheterization remains the gold standard to diagnose and obtain hemodynamic data prior to cardiovascular surgery. In order to find out the accuracy of transthoracic echocardiography in relation to the anatomical diagnosis of congenital heart diseases, 175 consecutive patients who underwent diagnostic cardiac
