Single centre experience of the application of self navigated 3D whole heart cardiovascular magnetic resonance for the assessment of cardiac anatomy in congenital heart disease

Table 3 Rate of correct identification/exclusion of residual structural defects with 3D-self-navigated CMR

	N	Observer 1	Observer 2
Tetralogy of Fallot	19	19 (100 %)	18 (94.7 %)^a
D-transposition of the great arteries	13	13 (100 %)	13 (100 %)
Fontan circulation	3	2 (66.7 %)^b	2 (66.7 %)^b
Syndromes associated with aortic dilatation	20	20 (100 %)	20 (100 %)
Coarctation of the aorta	7	6 (85.7 %)^c	7 (100 %)
Ross operation	6	6 (100 %)	5 (83.3 %)^d
Septum defects and abnormal venous returns	13	12 (92.3 %)^e	11 (84.6 %)^f, ^g
Other complex malformations	12	10 (83.3 %)^h, ⁱ	10 (83.3 %)^j, ⁱ
Other non-complex malformations	12	12 (100 %)	12 (100 %)
All patients	105	100 (95.2 %)	97 (93.3 %)

^aCoronary artery abnormality suspected by CMR but not present
^bHypoplastic left heart syndrome with mitral atresia described intra-operatively by the surgeon (=reference diagnosis). On the CMR performed 8 years later, no mitral atresia was found. Cine sequences confirmed the presence of a hypoplastic but functional mitral valve
^cPatent foramen ovale not recognized
^dCoronary abnormality (left main stem re-implanted into the non-coronary sinus after Ross operation) not described by CMR
^eOstium secundum atrial septal defect not recognized
^fDescription of a RV outflow tract aneurysm that was not present
^gNon-restrictive ventricular septal defect diagnosed by echocardiography, not recognized
^hModified Blalock-Taussig shunt not described on CMR
ⁱUn-operated pulmonary valve described as atretic on echocardiography but considered as severely stenotic valve with hypoplastic pulmonary arteries on CMR
^jOperated double outlet RV of Fallot type described as operated tetralogy of Fallot

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