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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kahyaoğlu, Muzaffer
• Geçmen, Çetin

Titel

A case of congenital partial absence of the left pericardium presenting with atypical chest pain

Ist Teil von

• Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology, 2021-12, Vol.49 (8), p.685-687

Ort / Verlag

Turkey: Aves Yayincilik Ltd. STI

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Congenital absence of the pericardium (CAP) is a rare cardiac malformation and can be defined as the partial or total absence of the fibroelastic sac that surrounds the heart and great vessels. As the patients are often asymptomatic or have nonspecific symptoms, the diagnosis of this rare congenital anomaly is difficult. Therefore, it is usually diagnosed incidentally during imaging, intraoperatively, or during postmortem examinations. In this regard, it is important to keep specific images in mind during the examination and to suspect CAP to make an accurate diagnosis. In this report, we present a case of a 42-year-old male who presented with a complaint of atypical chest pain and was diagnosed with CAP using multimodality imaging.