Odd Acoustic Window and Elongated Ventricles: Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Congenital Absence of the Pericardium

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 s...

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Published in:Pediatric cardiology 2012-10, Vol.33 (7), p.1220-1221
Main Authors: Flosdorff, Patrick, Paech, Christian, Riede, Frank-Thomas, Dähnert, Ingo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Cardiac Surgery
Cardiology
Diagnosis
Diagnostic imaging
Echocardiography
Genetic disorders
Heart Defects, Congenital - diagnostic imaging
Heart diseases
Humans
Images in Pediatric Cardiology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Pediatric cardiology
Pericardium - abnormalities
Vascular Surgery
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0172-0643
1432-1971
DOI:10.1007/s00246-012-0339-z