Echographic Data of Left Ventricular Morphological Condition in Inflamatory Heart Disease

Merab Matiashvili, Manana Zhvania, George Chakhunashvili

The important problem is the diagnosis and morphological evaluation of Acute Nonrheumatic Carditis in children. The aim of this trial is to study left ventricle wall morphology with two -dimentional Echocardiography in acute nonrheumatic carditis and the evaluation of the indices both in normal children and with other diseases. More than 222 patients were eximined during this trial which have the diagnosis of acute nonrheumatic carditis. With two-dimentional echocardiography was evaluated the miocardium (MIO), endocardium (END) and epicardium (EPI). Than this indices were compared with the same ones of the healthy children, children with cardiomyopathy and rheumocarditis.With statistic analysis we got the following: Myocardial (MIO), epicardial (EPI) and endocardial (END) sizes are certainly increased during acute nonrheumatic carditis (ANRC) and rheumocarditis (RC). In case of acute nonrheumatic carditis and rheumocarditis the size difference between myocardium, endocardium and epicardium is insignificant.In case of myocardiopathy the sizes of myocardium, endocardium and epicardium comparing with normal data changes uncertainly.

Keywords:   rheumatic carditis, nonrheumatic carditis, echocardiography, myocardiopathy, endocardium, myocardium, epicardium