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  • Title: Assessment of descending aortic blood flow velocities with continuous wave Doppler echocardiography among healthy Children in South East Nigeria.
    Author: Chinawa JM, Chinawa AT, Chukwu BF, Onyia JT.
    Journal: Malawi Med J; 2024 Mar; 36(1):1-6. PubMed ID: 39086365.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: The descending aorta velocity is important predictor of aortic disease in children and can be very helpful in some clinical and surgical decision making. AIM: The purpose of this study is to assess the normative values of descending aorta velocity among children from South-East Nigeria. It also aimed to assess the correlation between age, body surface area and mean velocity across the descending aorta. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study where the descending aorta velocity of one hundred and eleven children were enrolled consecutively using digitized two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. RESULTS: A total of 111 children had echocardiography to study their cardiac structures and compute their mean scores of their descending aorta velocity. The mean velocity across the descending aorta was 1.3±0.2m/s with maximum and minimum velocities of 2.06 and 0.84cm respectively. The mean descending aorta velocity in males (1.37±0.24 m/s) was significantly higher than that in females (1.24±0.18); (Student T test 3.09, p = 0.03). There was no correlation between age and mean velocity across the descending aorta (Pearson correlation coefficient; -0.03, p = 0.7) nor between body surface area and descending aorta velocity (correlation coefficient 0.01, p= 0.8). CONCLUSIONS: The presented normalized values of the descending aorta velocity using a digitized two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography among healthy children will serve as a reference values for further studies and can be applied for clinical and surgical use in children with various cardiac anomalies.
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