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Pericardial Agenesis as a Rather Unusual Cause of Palpitations: We Only See What we Know

Cardiac palpitations secondary to ventricular ectopic beats are a frequent clinical indication for a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scan. CMR has already demonstrated its additive diagnostic value in patients with frequent arrhythmias even when echocardiogram appears normal. Hereby, we describe a...

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Autores principales: Grigoratos, Chrysanthos, Todiere, Giancarlo, Aquaro, Giovanni Donato, Barison, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30306025
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_15_18
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author Grigoratos, Chrysanthos
Todiere, Giancarlo
Aquaro, Giovanni Donato
Barison, Andrea
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description Cardiac palpitations secondary to ventricular ectopic beats are a frequent clinical indication for a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scan. CMR has already demonstrated its additive diagnostic value in patients with frequent arrhythmias even when echocardiogram appears normal. Hereby, we describe a case of a middle-aged male patient referred to our laboratory because of frequent ventricular ectopic beats and an inconclusive echocardiogram due to an extremely poor acoustic window. A diagnosis of pericardial agenesis (PA) was made explaining patient symptoms and arrhythmias previously detected. Furthermore, at the case report description, PA prevalence, associated cardiac pathologies, and novel CMR diagnostic criteria are being described.
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spelling pubmed-61728802018-10-10 Pericardial Agenesis as a Rather Unusual Cause of Palpitations: We Only See What we Know Grigoratos, Chrysanthos Todiere, Giancarlo Aquaro, Giovanni Donato Barison, Andrea J Cardiovasc Echogr Case Report Cardiac palpitations secondary to ventricular ectopic beats are a frequent clinical indication for a cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scan. CMR has already demonstrated its additive diagnostic value in patients with frequent arrhythmias even when echocardiogram appears normal. Hereby, we describe a case of a middle-aged male patient referred to our laboratory because of frequent ventricular ectopic beats and an inconclusive echocardiogram due to an extremely poor acoustic window. A diagnosis of pericardial agenesis (PA) was made explaining patient symptoms and arrhythmias previously detected. Furthermore, at the case report description, PA prevalence, associated cardiac pathologies, and novel CMR diagnostic criteria are being described. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6172880/ /pubmed/30306025 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_15_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Cardiovascular Echography http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Aquaro, Giovanni Donato
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Pericardial Agenesis as a Rather Unusual Cause of Palpitations: We Only See What we Know
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title_full Pericardial Agenesis as a Rather Unusual Cause of Palpitations: We Only See What we Know
title_fullStr Pericardial Agenesis as a Rather Unusual Cause of Palpitations: We Only See What we Know
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title_short Pericardial Agenesis as a Rather Unusual Cause of Palpitations: We Only See What we Know
title_sort pericardial agenesis as a rather unusual cause of palpitations: we only see what we know
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172880/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jcecho.jcecho_15_18
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