{"id":12973,"date":"2024-03-19T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12973"},"modified":"2024-03-19T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T11:59:56","slug":"assessment-of-descending-aortic-blood-flow-velocities-with-continuous-wave-doppler-echocardiography-among-healthy-children-in-south-east-nigeria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=12973","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of descending aortic blood flow velocities with continuous wave Doppler echocardiography among healthy Children in South East Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Josephat M Chinawa<sup>1<\/sup>, Awoere T Chinawa<sup>2<\/sup>, Bartholomew F Chukwu<sup>2<\/sup>, Jude T Onyia<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Ituku\/Ozalla and University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku\/Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria<\/li><li>Department of Community Medicine, ESUCOM, Parklane Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria<br><strong>*Corresponding Author:<\/strong> Josephat Chinawa; E-mail: josephat.chinawa@unn.edu.ng<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>                                                                      <strong>Abstract<\/strong><br><strong>Background<\/strong><br>The descending aorta velocity is important predictor of aortic disease in children and can be very helpful in some clinical and surgical decision making.<br><strong>Aim<\/strong><br>The purpose of this study is to assess the normative values of descending aorta velocity among children from South-East Nigeria. It also aimed to assess the correlation between age, body surface area and mean velocity across the descending aorta.<br><strong>Methods<\/strong><br>This is a cross-sectional study where the descending aorta velocity of one hundred and eleven children were enrolled consecutively using digitized two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography.<br><strong>Results<\/strong><br>A total of 111 children had echocardiography to study their cardiac structures and compute their mean scores of their descending aorta velocity. The mean velocity across the descending aorta was 1.3\u00b10.2m\/s with maximum and minimum velocities of 2.06 and 0.84cm respectively. The mean descending aorta velocity in males (1.37\u00b10.24 m\/s) was significantly higher than that in females (1.24\u00b10.18); (Student T test 3.09, p = 0.03). There was no correlation between age and mean velocity across the descending aorta (Pearson correlation coefficient; -0.03, p = 0.7) nor between body surface area and descending aorta velocity (correlation coefficient 0.01, p= 0.8).<br><strong>Conclusions<\/strong><br>The presented normalized values of the descending aorta velocity using a digitized two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography among healthy children will serve as a reference value for further studies and can be applied for clinical and surgical use in children with various cardiac anomalies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Chinawas-1.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josephat M Chinawa1, Awoere T Chinawa2, Bartholomew F Chukwu2, Jude T Onyia2 Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Ituku\/Ozalla and University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku\/Ozalla, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria Department of Community Medicine, ESUCOM, Parklane Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria*Corresponding Author: Josephat Chinawa; E-mail: josephat.chinawa@unn.edu.ng AbstractBackgroundThe descending aorta velocity is important predictor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12986,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions\/12986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}