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Vol. 52. Issue 4.
Pages 288-300 (January 2010)
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Vol. 52. Issue 4.
Pages 288-300 (January 2010)
Congenital heart disease in adults: The contribution of multidetector CT
Cardiopatías congénitas en el adulto. Aportaciones de la tomografía computarizada multidetector
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M. Navallasa,
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, P. Orenesa, M.A. Sánchez Nistala, C. Jiménez López Guarchb
a Radiology Department, University Hospital 12 October, Madrid, Spain
b Cardiology Department, University Hospital 12 October, Madrid, Spain
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Abstract

Congenital heart disease is relatively common among adults. Patients’ conditions have generally been diagnosed previously and imaging tests are requested for follow-up or for complications of the anomaly or of its surgical correction.

Classically, these patients were studied with echocardiography and cardiac catheterization, but multidetector CT and magnetic resonance imaging have changed the approach because these techniques show the anatomy of heart defects and their correction very clearly.

We emphasize the importance of multidetector CT as a complementary technique for the study of congenital heart disease that is newly discovered in adults or for the follow-up of congenital heart disease that was surgically corrected during childhood. When vascular anomalies are present outside the heart or after palliative surgery, multidetector CT shows anatomical details that are difficult or impossible to see with echocardiography. We also emphasize the frequent association between pulmonary hypertension and congenital heart disease that can debut in adults.

Keywords:
Heart defects congenital
Heart septal defects atrial
Heart septal defects vetricular
Ebstein anomaly
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transposition of great vessels
Spiral cone-beam CT
Computed tomography multidetector
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Las cardiopatías congénitas (CC) constituyen actualmente una enfermedad no infrecuente en el adulto. Generalmente el paciente está diagnosticado previamente y el estudio se solicita como seguimiento o por complicaciones de la anomalía o de su corrección quirúrgica.

Clásicamente, estos pacientes se estudiaban con ecocardiografía y cateterismo cardíaco, pero el abordaje ha cambiado con la tomografía computarizada multidetector (TCMD) y la resonancia magnética, ya que permiten una excelente demostración anatómica de las anomalías cardíacas y de su corrección quirúrgica.

Pretendemos resaltar la importancia de la TCMD como método complementario en el estudio de las CC descubiertas en el adulto o en las corregidas quirúrgicamente en la infancia y seguidas posteriormente. Cuando existen anomalías vasculares extracardíacas o tras la realización de cirugía paliativa, la TCMD muestra detalles anatómicos difíciles o imposibles de valorar con ecocardiografía. También resaltamos la frecuente asociación de hipertensión pulmonar con CC que pueden debutar en la edad adulta.

Palabras clave:
Cardiopatías congénitas
Comunicación interauricular
Comunicación interventricular
Anomalía de Ebstein
Tetralogía de Fallot
Transposición de grandes vasos
Situs inversus
Tomografía computarizada multidetector

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