Echocardiographic characteristics of the criss-cross heart

The Development of Echocardiography in China: The Pioneering Role of Xin-Fang Wang

“…But despite his "grandfather" status, Wang is not prepared to retire anytime soon: he continues to respond to my letters and e-mails within 24 hours, goes to his university library and echocardiographic laboratory every day, attends important ultrasonic meetings, and continues to publish. [49][50][51] Conclusion echocardiography has revolutionized the practice of cardiology in the 21st century. it is the most popular and widely used cardiac imaging technique in the world and is the second mostfrequently ordered cardiologic test after eCG.…”

“…39 soon thereafter, Wang conducted extensive studies with, and published numerous pacesetting articles on, monoplane, biplane, and multiplane transesophageal echocardiography, real-time 3d echocardiography, and tissue doppler imaging, and i was privileged to collaborate with him on several publications. 19,33,38,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] there are more than 50 textbooks on echocardiography published in China. Wang published China's first textbook on …”

Professor Xin-fang Wang from China is the Father of Modern Echocardiography

“…Soon thereafter, Professor Wang made extensive studies with, and published numerous articles on, monoplane, biplane and multiplane transesophageal echocardiography. I was privileged to collaborate with him on several publications [22,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43].…”

“…But, despite his status as a grandfather, Professor Wang is not prepared to retire anytime soon. He responds to my letters and e-mails within 24 h, even at midnight, goes to his university library every day, attends important ultrasonic meetings in different cities, and continues to publish [40][41][42]. He is a proud grandfather of a granddaughter who in April 2011 received her PhD/MD in echocardiography at the same Tongji Medical University (Fig.…”

Crisscross heart with dextrocardia and intact interventricular septum

“…Thus, the direction of rotation is clockwise in a normal heart and in complete transposition of the great vessels, whereas, the rotation is counterclockwise in the corrected transposition of the great vessels. [1]…”