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Echocardiography is a portable and readily available technique for the evaluation of pericardial disease. Pericardial thickening (Fig. 8.1), effusion, masses, constrictions, effusive-constrictive pericarditis, congenital absence of pericardium are some of the conditions which may be evaluated from both anatomical and hemodynamic perspectives.
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Video 8.1
Apical 4 chamber view showing moderate sized pericardial effusiion with right atrial inversion greater than 1/3 of the cardiac cycle c/w tamponade physiology. Please note fibrinous material present in pericardial fluid (AVI 7600 kb)
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Subcostal echocardiographic view of a patient with pericardial effusion with right ventricular diastolic collapse consistent with pericardial tamponade (AVI 81978 kb)
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Kireyev, D., Hung, J. (2016). Pericardial Disease. In: Kireyev, D., Hung, J. (eds) Cardiac Imaging in Clinical Practice. In Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21458-0_8
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