Radiology, Vol 127, 491-499, Copyright © 1978 by Radiological Society of North America
A two-dimensional echoaortocardiographic approach to dissecting aneurysms of the aorta to prevent false-positive diagnoses
M Matsumoto, H Matsuo, T Ohara, Y Yoshioka and H Abe
Two patients with dissecting aneurysms of the aorta of Debakey type I and
II, 10 healthy subjects, and 2 patients with signs mimicking aortic- root
dissection were studied by two-dimensional echoaortocardiography, standard
echocardiography, and M-mode scanning. In both electrocardiographically
gated and nonelectrocardiographically gated two-dimensional
echoaortocardiograms of each patient, aortic-root dissections were clearly
visualized. Because of the possibility of a false-positive diagnosis of an
aortic-root dissection by previously reported criteria (including cases in
the authors' experience and in the literature), the authors are convinced
that the combination of two- dimensional and standard echoaortocardiography
provides the most reliable echo diagnosis of this disease.
