pericardial hemangioma is very rare and their coincidence with other visceral hemamgiomas is exceptional. we are reporting a 72-year-old man with an incidentally discovered pericardial hemangioma during coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) and mitral valve replacement surgery and a prior history of multiple hepatic cavernous hemangiomas. this case has been reported due to its extreme rarity. to ...

The pericardium is a double walled sac, surrounding the heart and consists of a dense network of collagen fibers. During the contraction, the epicardial surface glides on the inner surface of the pericardium. The pericardial fluid between these two surfaces allows almost frictionless motion. In this work an electromechanical simulation framework was used to simulate the motion of the contractin...

The pericardium is a watertight sac that envelops the heart and the great vessels. It is affected by various disease states, and its tough and inelastic nature means that acute accumulation of small amounts of fluid, or fibrosis and scarring processes affecting it may impede filling of cardiac chambers and reduce cardiac output. This is the main impact that the pericardium has in pathological s...

PURPOSE To use fascia lata instead of pericardium and observe the presence of adhesions. METHODS Twenty rabbits were divided into two group of ten. In group A, a 1×1 cm segment of pericardium was excised and resutured. In group B excised pericardium was substituted for autologous fascia lata. RESULTS In the comparison of microscopic adhesion rate between two groups A, B after eight weeks, t...

We have assessed viscoelastic properties of pericardium within the physiological range of stresses and related mechanical behavior to fiber direction as defined by scanning electron microscopy. Stiffness, stress relaxation, and creep were measured in samples taken from the anterior surface of 14 canine pericardia. Stress-strain relations generally were not exponential; stiffness at a stress of ...

Acute pericardial diseases include acute pericarditis and cardiac tamponade. Both conditions can be associated with acute hemodynamic instability or cardiac failure and require immediate diagnostic workup and treatment. The pericardium surrounds the heart with two layers. The outer fi brous layer is called the parietal pericardium; the inner layer, which covers the cardiac surface, is the serou...

This work assesses the effect of lyophilization on the cytotoxicity and residual aldehyde concentration of glutaraldehyde-treated and lyophilized bovine pericardium (group A), comparing it to conventional glutaraldehyde-treated bovine pericardium (group B). Cytotoxicity was measured by incubating a pericardium sample from each group in saline and assessing the eluant's influence on cellular gro...

The Task Force on the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology artj.oxdjournals.o Task Force members, Bernhard Maisch, Chairperson* (Germany), Petar M. Seferovi c (Serbia and Montenegro), Arsen D. Risti c (Serbia and Montenegro), Raimund Erbel (Germany), Reiner Rienm€ uller (Austria), Yehuda Adler (Israel), Witold Z. Tomkowski (Poland), Gaetano Thie...

BackgroundAnimal-derived pericardium is a key material that enables the successful clinical use of bioprosthetic heart valves. Recently, transcatheter valves have placed more emphasis on enhancement this tissue, especially in terms producing uniform, thin, durable tissue. In study, we provide new method to achieve thinner tissue and insights into how consistent which potentially may lead valves...