Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium in an Elderly Patient

Patients with a complete absence of pericardium require no intervention as they are mostly asymptomatic. Due to the risk of herniation, patients with partial absence of pericardium tend to present with symptoms and may benefit from treatment. We report a case of an elderly patient who presented for...

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Autores principales: El Khoury, Antoine, Zayour, Mohamad, Hanna, Carla, Janji, Miril, Nasr, Samer R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8559670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34737905
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18437
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author El Khoury, Antoine
Zayour, Mohamad
Hanna, Carla
Janji, Miril
Nasr, Samer R
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description Patients with a complete absence of pericardium require no intervention as they are mostly asymptomatic. Due to the risk of herniation, patients with partial absence of pericardium tend to present with symptoms and may benefit from treatment. We report a case of an elderly patient who presented for severe colitis and was incidentally found to have a partial absence of the pericardium on the right side of the heart. 
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spelling pubmed-85596702021-11-03 Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium in an Elderly Patient El Khoury, Antoine Zayour, Mohamad Hanna, Carla Janji, Miril Nasr, Samer R Cureus Cardiology Patients with a complete absence of pericardium require no intervention as they are mostly asymptomatic. Due to the risk of herniation, patients with partial absence of pericardium tend to present with symptoms and may benefit from treatment. We report a case of an elderly patient who presented for severe colitis and was incidentally found to have a partial absence of the pericardium on the right side of the heart.  Cureus 2021-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8559670/ /pubmed/34737905 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18437 Text en Copyright © 2021, El Khoury et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium in an Elderly Patient
title Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium in an Elderly Patient
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title_fullStr Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium in an Elderly Patient
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title_short Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium in an Elderly Patient
title_sort congenital partial absence of pericardium in an elderly patient
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8559670/
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