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Partial Congenital Absence of The Pericardium: A Case Report

The complete or the partial absence of pericardium is a rare congenital malformation for which the patients are commonly asymptomatic and the diagnosis is incidental. The absence of the left side of the pericardium is the most common anomaly that is reported in the literature while the complete abse...

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Autores principales: Benameur, Narjes, Arous, Younes, landolsi, Manel, Chenik, Sarra, Abdallah, Nejmeddine Ben, Kraiem, Tarek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31165613
http://dx.doi.org/10.21470/1678-9741-2018-0357
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Sumario:The complete or the partial absence of pericardium is a rare congenital malformation for which the patients are commonly asymptomatic and the diagnosis is incidental. The absence of the left side of the pericardium is the most common anomaly that is reported in the literature while the complete absence of pericardium or the absence of the right side of the pericardium are uncommon and their criteria are still unrecognized given their rare occurrence in clinical practice. This paper aims to report a case of 19-year-old male with the congenital partial absence of both sides of the pericardium and to highlight the symptoms and the different cardiac imaging modalities used to confirm the diagnosis of this defect.