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Annex 1: Quality criteria of the Left Ventricular
Outflow Tract assessment
- A Left ventricular cavity (whether anatomically on the left or right)
and identification to the tip of the ventricle and interventricular
septum.
- The presence of a valvular ring and the origin of the overlying
vessel, whether or not this ventricle gives rise to a vessel.
- An anechogenic Space Above And In The Middle Of The Semilunar Valves
(Visualisation And position above the semilunar valves), corresponding
to the anterosuperior part of the ventricular cavity on the right.
- An anechogenic space located below the semilunar valves (visualisation
and position below the semilunar valves), corresponding to the atrium
located on the left and behind the left atrioventricular valve.
- The relationship between the left atrioventricular valve and the
overlying vessel: continuity or discontinuity between the
atrioventricular valve and the overlying vessel.
- The relationship between the interventricular septum and the overlying
vessel: continuity or discontinuity between the septum and the
overlying vessel.
- Visualisation of the semilunar valves: normal or dysplastic in
appearance.
8: Thoracic aorta belongs not to the quality criteria