• 作者：M. Navallas^a ; ^{mnavallas@gmail.com} ; P. Orenes^a ; M.A. Sá ; nchez Nistal^a ; C. Jimé ; nez Ló ; pez Guarch^b
• 关键词：Cardiopatí ; as congé ; nitas ; Comunicació ; n interauricular ; Comunicació ; n interventricular ; Anomalí ; a de Ebstein ; Tetralogí ; a de Fallot ; Transposició ; n de grandes vasos ; Situs inversus ; Tomografí ; a computarizad
• 刊名：Radiolog铆a
• 出版年：2010
• 期刊代码：pca298_00338338
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：July-August 2010
• 卷：52
• 期：4
• 页码：288-300
• 文件大小：1929 K

Congenital heart disease is relatively common among adults. Patients鈥?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.