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Congenital Absence of the Pericardium
Congenital absence of the pericardium is a rare cardiac malformation and is most often asymptomatic. It is usually discovered as an incidental finding. Physical examination, chest radiography, and electrocardiogram are often unremarkable. Echocardiography provides valuable information, and sometimes computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging is needed for subsequent confirmation.
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A 71-year-old male presented with atypical chest pain and dilatation of the right ventricle on echocardiography and was referred for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) for suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. CMR showed marked posterior and leftward displacement of the heart, with the apex extending to the left lateral chest wall. Spin echo imaging showed thin perica...
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A37-year-old, physically active man presented for evaluation of nonexertional chest pain. He described it as sharp, left-sided, and nonradiating. The review of systems was unremarkable. He had had no previous thoracic surgery. Physical examination revealed a nonpalpable apical impulse, with no other abnormal findings. A chest radiograph (Figure 1) demonstrated a prominent pulmonary artery shado...
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THE P A " ' PE"CAFm1"" MAY BE incompletely formed at birth, resulting in partial absence or deficiency of this membrane. As an isolated anomaly, the condition is rare. The subject was thoroughly reviewed by Ellis and assofiates' in 1959. Less than 120 validated c a m have been reported since that of Baillie' in 1793. Despite this rarity, the condition is of in-temt to the clinician and radiolog...
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The morbid anatomy and histopathology is described as found at necropsy on a 7-year-old coloured girl who suffered from partial defect of the pericardium with prolapse and partial incarceration of the cardiac apex. Because of the absence of any history of illness during life the defect is considered to have been congenital, and because of the lack of any other significant necropsy findings, it ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1959
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-195901000-00016