Intrapericardial Doppler Flow Signals in a Patient with Postsurgical Pericardial Effusion

A 62-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital because of a relapse of pericardial effusion complicating a recent aortic root replacement. At admission to our hospital, echocardiogram showed the reappearance of pericardial effusion and the presence of intrapericardial clots. Color Doppler...

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Autores principales: Mancuso, Luigi, Camarda, Pietro, Mancuso, Andrea, Valerio, Eliana, Rebulla, Eduardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30065484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmu.2017.07.002
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author Mancuso, Luigi
Camarda, Pietro
Mancuso, Andrea
Valerio, Eliana
Rebulla, Eduardo
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description A 62-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital because of a relapse of pericardial effusion complicating a recent aortic root replacement. At admission to our hospital, echocardiogram showed the reappearance of pericardial effusion and the presence of intrapericardial clots. Color Doppler and Pulsed–wave examinations showed a localized systolic flow within the pericardial space. Contrast enhanced computed tomography excluded abnormal communications with the cardiac chambers or with the aorta. The possible causes of this unusual Doppler finding are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-60292962018-07-31 Intrapericardial Doppler Flow Signals in a Patient with Postsurgical Pericardial Effusion Mancuso, Luigi Camarda, Pietro Mancuso, Andrea Valerio, Eliana Rebulla, Eduardo J Med Ultrasound Case Report A 62-year-old female patient was admitted to our hospital because of a relapse of pericardial effusion complicating a recent aortic root replacement. At admission to our hospital, echocardiogram showed the reappearance of pericardial effusion and the presence of intrapericardial clots. Color Doppler and Pulsed–wave examinations showed a localized systolic flow within the pericardial space. Contrast enhanced computed tomography excluded abnormal communications with the cardiac chambers or with the aorta. The possible causes of this unusual Doppler finding are discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 2017-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6029296/ /pubmed/30065484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmu.2017.07.002 Text en Copyright: © 2017, Elsevier Taiwan LLC and the Chinese Taipei Society of Ultrasound in Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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