Table 4.
Diagnostic methods and QPV types of Hurwitz and Roberts.
| Diagnostic Methods | Hurwitz and Roberts’s type | |||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | - | |
| Autopsy | ||||||||
| Hurwitz’s Review (1973) | 15 | 72 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 121 |
| Excluded Hurwitz’ review | 11 | 44 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 68 |
| Donor heart | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| Surgery | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Total number | 30 | 120 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 204 |
| % | 14.7 | 58.8 | 13.2 | 4.4 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 4.1 | |
| TTE | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| CT and CMR | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Total number | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
| % | 50.0 | 41.2 | 5.9 | 2.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Abbreviations: CT, computed tomography; CMR, cardiac magnetic resonance; TTE, transthoracic echocardiography.