Comparison of 3 hand-carried ultrasound devices with comprehensive echocardiographic devices in elderly cardiac inpatient examinations.
- Author:
Jing MA
1
;
Xing-Fang JIN
;
Yi LIU
;
Li YANG
;
Jian-Hua ZHENG
;
Yu-Hui ZHANG
;
Ai-Yu MIAO
;
Ming CHEN
Author Information
1. Eastern Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University. Shanghai, 200120.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Aged;
Aged, 80 and over;
Echocardiography;
classification;
instrumentation;
Female;
Heart Diseases;
diagnostic imaging;
Humans;
Inpatients;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Monitoring, Ambulatory;
instrumentation
- From:
Chinese Journal of Medical Instrumentation
2008;32(4):304-307
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
In order to test the clinical capacity of hand-carried ultrasound (HCU) devices in elderly inpatients with heart disease, chamber sizes of heart structure, ventricular wall thickness and motion abnormality (WMA), mitral valve and tricuspid regurgitation evaluated by HCU devices in 401 elderly inpatients with heart disease were compared with those evaluated by comprehensive echocardiography (CE) devices. As a result, there was no significant difference in measurements of cardiac chamber dimensions or left ventricular ejection fraction between the two techniques. The HCU's WMA detection rate relative to the CE was 92.15%. Their conformable rates for detection of mitral and tricuspid regurgitation was 93% and 91.4% respectively. Therefore, we conclude that HCU is one of the practical modalities for diagnosis and monitoring in elderly inpatients with heart disease.
