Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric Cases
Echocardiography is considered the primary diagnostic tool for congenital heart diseases. The pediatric echocardiography diagnostic errors, consisting of false positive or discrepant diagnoses, picked up within a 2.5-year period in our pediatric echocardiography laboratory are presented herein. In t...
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| description | Echocardiography is considered the primary diagnostic tool for congenital heart diseases. The pediatric echocardiography diagnostic errors, consisting of false positive or discrepant diagnoses, picked up within a 2.5-year period in our pediatric echocardiography laboratory are presented herein. In this case report, the factors contributing to the diagnostic errors are categorized as cognitive such as misidentification/misinterpretation of findings and distraction by other diagnoses; procedural or conditional such as incomplete examination of anatomy/physiology and poor imaging conditions; and finally communicational or informational such as lacking or misleading patients history and incorrect requisition. The quality of diagnostic pediatric echocardiography can be improved if the operator has sufficient knowledge about the normal growth and development of children, different types of congenital heart defects, and principles of ultrasound physics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6142a015793148da82293e32afd79c3c2022-12-22T00:13:57ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesJournal of Tehran University Heart Center1735-86202012-03-01713336Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric CasesMaryam MoradianEchocardiography is considered the primary diagnostic tool for congenital heart diseases. The pediatric echocardiography diagnostic errors, consisting of false positive or discrepant diagnoses, picked up within a 2.5-year period in our pediatric echocardiography laboratory are presented herein. In this case report, the factors contributing to the diagnostic errors are categorized as cognitive such as misidentification/misinterpretation of findings and distraction by other diagnoses; procedural or conditional such as incomplete examination of anatomy/physiology and poor imaging conditions; and finally communicational or informational such as lacking or misleading patients history and incorrect requisition. The quality of diagnostic pediatric echocardiography can be improved if the operator has sufficient knowledge about the normal growth and development of children, different types of congenital heart defects, and principles of ultrasound physics.http://journals.tums.ac.ir/PdfMed.aspx?pdf_med=/upload_files/pdf/20685.pdf&manuscript_id=20685EchocardiographyDiagnostic ErrorsHeart DefectsCongenital |
| spellingShingle | Maryam Moradian Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric Cases Journal of Tehran University Heart Center Echocardiography Diagnostic Errors Heart Defects Congenital |
| title | Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric Cases |
| title_full | Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric Cases |
| title_fullStr | Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric Cases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric Cases |
| title_short | Diagnostic Errors in Echocardiography: Review of Five Interesting Pediatric Cases |
| title_sort | diagnostic errors in echocardiography review of five interesting pediatric cases |
| topic | Echocardiography Diagnostic Errors Heart Defects Congenital |
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