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European Heart Journal 1983 4(10):733-737;
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© 1983, by the European Society of Cardiology

Interpretative reproducibility of two-dimensional echocardiographic images. Analysis of intraobserver, interobserver and beat to beat reproducibility of the mitral value orifice

P. MARINO, L. ZANOLLA, G. P. NIDASIO, G. L. NICOLOSI* and A. FABBRI

Dipartimento di Cardiologa, Istituti Ospitalieri di Verona, Piazzale A. Stefani l Verona, Italy
*Servizio di Emodinamica, Ospedale Civile Pordenone, Italy

Received 23 August 1982; revised 1 December 1982; .

Correspondence to: Paolo Marino, MD, Dipartimento di Cardiologia, Istituti Ospitalieri di Verona, Piazzale A. Stefani 1, Verona, Italy.

Abstract

The intraobserver, interobserver and beat to beat interpretative reproducibility of two-dimensional echocardiographic images of the mitral valve area has been studied retrospectively in a group of 37 patients affected by rheumatic mitral valve disease. Reproducibility has been expressed either in terms of mean absolute or percent error of duplicate measurements. A group of 11 normal subjects was used for comparison.

In our normal group the intraobserver, interobserver and beat to beat reproducibility averaged 1.8±2.1%, 3.1±1.4%, 2.7±2.0% or 0.12± 0.14 cm2, 0.21±0.10cm2, 0.17±0.13 cm2, respectively. In our patient population the intraobserver, interobserver and beat to beat reproducibility averaged 2.7±2.7%, 4.1±4.9%, 4.6± 3.6% or 0.05±0.05 cm2, 0.08± 0.10cm2, 0.08±0.06cm2. In both groups there was no statistical difference among intraobserver, interobserver and beat to beat reproducibility either in terms of percent or absolute value.

The mean percent error did not significantly differ between normal or stenotic valves or, in this latter group, among valves of different sizes (≤1.4cm2; 1.5–2.4 cm2; 2.5 cm2). The mean absolute error, on the contrary, statistically differed between the two groups or among valves of different sizes, being larger in normals or in valves ≥1.5 cm2. Thus, the interpretative reproducibility for two-dimensional echocardiographic images of the mitral valve area is small and acceptable for most clinical purposes. The use of mean percent error of duplicate measurements makes the quantification of reproducibility easily comprehensible in clinical practice and insensitive to the actual cross sectional area of the structure examined thus allowing the data to be extended to cardiac structures of different sizes.

Key Words: Echocardiography • mitral valve stenosis


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