USE OF BOVINE PERICARDIUM FOR CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF LEFT DIAPHRAGM

Congenital absence of the left pericardium.

CASE HISTORY A 20-year-old female sought advice for diarrhoea and vomiting which followed a holiday in Majorca. She had no other symptoms. Apart from investigation of a cardiac murmur when she was six, past medical history was unremarkable. On examination she appeared healthy, with no fever or dehydration. Her abdomen was normal. Pulse was 100/min, regular, and blood pressure 110/60. Her apex b...

Congenital Absence of the Left Pericardium

UNTIL RECENT YEARS, the diagnosis of absence of the pericardium, partial or complete, had rarely been made prior to postmortem examination or thoracotomy. There are presently less than 120 cases reported in the literature. The rarity of this anomaly is indicated by the fact that only two instances were encountered by Verse" in 13,000 autopsies and only one by Southworth and Stevenson2 in 14,000...

Congenital Absence of Left Half of Diaphragm

Congenital Absence of Left Circumflex Coronary Artery

Congenital absence of left circumflex artery is a rare congenital anomaly of the coronary arteries. The prevalence of the anomaly in different studies ranges from 0.6% to 1.3%. Of these, 80% are benign and asymptomatic and 20% are clinically important. We report a 56-year-old man presented with acute resting chest pain who was diagnosed as having acute anterolateral infarction accompanied by el...

Congenital complete absence of left pericardium. Report of two cases.

Congenital absence of the pericardium is rare. In 7,500 necropsies cross-indexed since 1949 in the Department of Pathology, University of Otago, none was recorded, while in 12,000 recorded necropsies since 1921, only one was seen (D'Ath, 1969). The defect may be partial or complete. Though first described by Realdus Columbus in 1559, and thereafter noted as an unusual necropsy finding (Rusby an...