NON-INVASIVE ESTIMATION OF LEFT TO RIGHT SHUNTS USING ECHOCARDIOGRAMS AND RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY
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Radionuclide angiocardiography. Improved diagnosis and quantitation of left-to-right shunts using area ratio techniques in children.
A comparison of several reported methods for detection and quantitation of left-to-right shunts by radionuclides was performed in 50 children. Count ratio (C2/C1) techniques were compared with the exponential extrapolation and gamma function area ratio techniques. C2/C1 ratios accurately detected shunts and could reliably separate shunts from normals, but there was a high rate of false positive...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-197704000-00115