Congenital complete absence of pericardium presenting with chest pain: MRI characteristics
| Autor: | Madhan Nellaiyappan, Enrico M. Camporesi, Devanand Mangar, Tony Fattouch, Hesham R. Omar, Hany Demo, Orestis V Pappas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
integumentary system business.industry Entire pericardium Autopsy General Medicine Coronary stenosis 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology equipment and supplies Chest pain 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging Surgery 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Cardiac chamber cardiovascular system medicine Pericardium Radiology medicine.symptom Cardiac magnetic resonance business |
| Zdroj: | International Archives of Medicine. |
| ISSN: | 1755-7682 |
| DOI: | 10.3823/1944 |
| Popis: | Congenital absence of the pericardium is a very rare anomaly which has an incidence of 1 in 14000 cases in autopsy studies. Defects in the pericardium are either partial or complete with complete defects having a much benign course than partial defects. Partial defects are associated with complications like strangulation of a herniated cardiac chamber or coronary artery stenosis from external compression. Absence of the left pericardium is the most frequently encountered type of defect which accounts for 2/3 of the cases. We herein report a case of complete absence of the entire pericardium which is an extremely rare subtype with associated Cardiac magnetic resonance images. |
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