Ventricular Mechanics in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease and Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices: An Echocardiography and Cardiac Computed Tomography Comparison Study
摘要
Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) and cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) are at risk for ventricular dysfunction. Cine cardiac computed tomography (CCT) is increasingly used for functional assessment, but its reproducibility among observers has not been described in this population. Patients who underwent CCT and echocardiogram within a 3-month interval without intervening intervention were reviewed. Inter-observer and inter-modality agreement for left ventricular (LV) volumes and ejection fraction (EF), qualitative right ventricular (RV) size and function, and presence of dyssynchrony were measured using kappa statistic and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The study included 72 patients. There was excellent inter-observer agreement for LV volumes and LVEF by both echocardiography and CCT and moderate inter-modality agreement for all LV measurements. In patients with functional single ventricles, there was excellent inter-observer agreement for LV volumes and LVEF (ICC 0.99) by CCT and moderate agreement for LVEF by echocardiography (ICC 0.67). There was moderate agreement in RV size (