Clinical researchThe role of echocardiography in the assessment of right ventricular systolic function in patients with transposition of the great arteries and atrial redirectionPlace de l’échocardiographie transthoracique dans l’évaluation du ventricule droit systémique chez les patients porteurs d’une transposition des gros vaisseaux opérés par switch atrial
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Keywords
Echocardiography
Transposition of the great arteries
Atrial switch
Mustard-Senning
Systemic right ventricle
Mots clés
Échocardiographie
Transposition des gros vaisseaux
Mustard-Senning
Ventricule droit systémique
Abbreviations
2D
two-dimensional
IVS
interventricular septum
LV
left ventricular
MRI
magnetic resonance imaging
MRI-RVEF
RVEF assessed by MRI
NYHA
New York Heart Association
RV
right ventricle/ventricular
RVEDV
right ventricular end-diastolic volume
RVEF
right ventricular ejection fraction
RVESV
right ventricular end-systolic volume
RVFS
right ventricular fractional shortening
S’
peak systolic velocity
S’ TDI
peak systolic velocity at the junction of the RV free wall and the tricuspid annulus, assessed with pulsed TDI
TDI
tissue Doppler imaging
TGA
transposition of the great arteries
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