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Pericardial Disease

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Essential Echocardiography

Part of the book series: Contemporary Cardiology ((CONCARD))

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This chapter reviews key topics in pericardial disease and their characteristic echocardiographic features. Echocardiography serves a vital role in the diagnosis and evaluation of pericardial disease, which is often difficult to recognize by bedside examination alone.

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  1. Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Ashvin N. Pande MD & Leonard S. Lilly MD

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  1. Ashvin N. Pande MD
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  1. Noninvasive Cardiac Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Scott D. Solomon MD

  2. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

    Bernard Bulwer MD (Medical Illustrator and Associate Editor for Illustrations and Videos) (Medical Illustrator and Associate Editor for Illustrations and Videos)

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Pande, A.N., Lilly, L.S. (2007). Pericardial Disease. In: Solomon, S.D., Bulwer, B. (eds) Essential Echocardiography. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-977-6_10

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