caa a22 4500 388116129 CHVBK 20180307125407.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1047951100005217 doi S1047951100005217 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1047951100005217 Relationship of the dimension of cardiac structures to body size: an echocardiographic study in normal infants and children [Elektronische Daten] Normalization of the dimensions of cardiac structures to the size of the body, using so-called Z scores, is becoming increasingly common in the management of infants and children with congenital heart disease. Current published nomograms for the ascertainment of Z scores for cardiac structures in childhood are based largely on normal data obtained in formalin-fixed hearts. Since decisions concerning management are frequently based on the findings of cross-sectional echocardiograms, the dimensions of 15 cardiac structures were measured using cross-sectional echocardiography in 125 normal infants and children. Regression equations were derived relating cardiac dimensions to the size of the body. The expression of size with the highest correlation to cardiac dimensions was body surface area. Nomograms were then developed from which the Z score of a cardiac structure could be estimated from a knowledge of the body surface area and the echocardiographically derived measurement. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Cardiac dimensions nationallicence cross-sectional echocardiography nationallicence Z score nationallicence infants and children nationallicence normal values nationallicence Daubeney P. E. F. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK Blackstone E. H. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA Weintraub R. G. Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Slavik Z. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK Scanlon J. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK Webber S. A. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK Cardiology in the Young Cambridge University Press 9/4(1999-07), 402-410 1047-9511 9:4<402 1999 9 CTY https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951100005217 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951100005217 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Daubeney P. E. F. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Blackstone E. H. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weintraub R. G. Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Slavik Z. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scanlon J. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Webber S. A. Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cardiology in the Young Cambridge University Press 9/4(1999-07), 402-410 1047-9511 9:4<402 1999 9 CTY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge