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

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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.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Strümpellstrasse 39, 04289, Leipzig, Germany

    Patrick Flosdorff, Christian Paech, Frank-Thomas Riede & Ingo Dähnert

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Flosdorff, P., Paech, C., Riede, FT. et al. Odd Acoustic Window and Elongated Ventricles: Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Congenital Absence of the Pericardium. Pediatr Cardiol 33, 1220–1221 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-012-0339-z

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