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...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyun-Jin, Cho, Young-Seok, Cho, Goo-Yeong, Choi, Sang Il
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3992347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24753808
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2014.22.1.36
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description 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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spelling pubmed-39923472014-04-21 Congenital Absence of the Pericardium Kim, Hyun-Jin Cho, Young-Seok Cho, Goo-Yeong Choi, Sang Il J Cardiovasc Ultrasound Case Report 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. Korean Society of Echocardiography 2014-03 2014-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3992347/ /pubmed/24753808 http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2014.22.1.36 Text en Copyright © 2014 Korean Society of Echocardiography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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