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- Title
Odd Acoustic Window and Elongated Ventricles: Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Congenital Absence of the Pericardium.
- Authors
Flosdorff, Patrick; Paech, Christian; Riede, Frank-Thomas; Dähnert, Ingo
- Abstract
A 14-year-old boy with a heart murmur was referred to the authors' department because structural heart disease could not be ruled out by standard echocardiographic views. The best apical four-chamber view was obtained with the patient turned to a right lateral decubitus position and the transducer shifted almost to the posterior axillary line. A biplane chest x-ray also showed a counterclockwise heart axis deviation. Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the suspected congenital absence of the pericardium.
- Subjects
CASE studies; PERICARDIUM disease diagnosis; HEART diseases; CHEST X rays; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC resonance imaging
- Publication
Pediatric Cardiology, 2012, Vol 33, Issue 7, p1220
- ISSN
0172-0643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00246-012-0339-z