Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Pediatric Echocardiographic Nomograms for Coronary Artery Sizes in Caucasian Children and Comparison among Major Nomograms

Abstract

Background: Although coronary artery nomograms in children have been published, data on Caucasian children are lacking. The aim of this study is to provide: (i) a full dataset of coronary artery diameters in healthy children and (ii) a comparison among major previous nomograms. Materials and Methods: We prospectively evaluated 606 healthy subjects (age range, 1 days–2 scores, were logarithmic (ln[y] = a + b*ln[x]). Predicted values and Z-score boundaries by BSA are provided. Our ranges of normality are slightly lower than those, diverging from −0.22 to −0.59 Z-scores for the left main coronary artery and from −0.23 to −0.3 Z-scores for the right coronary artery. Conclusions: We report a complete dataset of normal echocardiography coronary artery diameter (including new measures of the proximal origin) values in a large population of healthy children. Our data were statistically like those of north American nomograms.

Keywords

• coronary arteries
• normal values
• echocardiography
• children