Cardiac displacement with a congenital complete left-sided pericardial defect in a patient with exertional angina pectoris: A case report

Angiology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 445-449

  Kojima, Sunao ^a,b   Nakamura, Taishi ^a,b   Sugiyama, Seigo ^a,b   Sakamoto, Tomohiro ^a,b   Yoshimura, Michihiro ^a,b   Arima, Toshiaki ^a,b   Suzuki, Ryusuke ^a,b   Kawasuji, Michio ^a,b   Ogawa, Hisao ^a,b  

^a Kumamoto Univ School of Medicine ^*

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL COMPLETE LEFT SIDED PERICARDIAL DEFECT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEVOCARDIA; MALE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIUM; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 3142732823     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331970405500412     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Rusk RA, Kenny A: Congenital pericardial defect presenting as chest pain. Heart 81:327-328, 1999.
2. Nasser WK, Helmen C, Tavel ME, et al: Congenital absence of the left pericardium: Clinical, electrocardiographic, radiographic, hemodynamic, and angiographic findings in six cases. Circulation 41:469-478, 1970.
3. Nguyen DQ, Wilsoon RF, Bolman RM III, et al: Congenital pericardial defect and concomitant coronary artery disease. Ann Thorac Surg 72:1371-1373, 2001.
4. Gassner I, Judmaier W, Fink C, et al: Diagnosis of congenital pericardial defects, including a pathognomic sign for dangerous apical ventricular herniation, on magnetic resonance imaging. Br Heart J 74:60-66, 1995.
5. Skalski J, Haponiuk I, Przybylski R, et al: A congenital defect of the pericardium. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 47:401-404, 1999.
6. Lajos TZ, Bunnell IL, Colokathis BP, et al: Coronary artery insufficiency secondary to congenital pericardial defect. Chest 58:73-76, 1970.