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Pericardium
The pericardium is a conical, flask-like, fibroserous sac which contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels and defines the middle mediastinum.
Gross anatomy
The pericardium is made of two sacs in one. The outer sac is the fibrous pericardium and the inner sac is the double-layered ...
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Aortic dissection with rupture into pericardium
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19 Nov 2010
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Congenital absence of the left pericardium
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16 Apr 2019
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Pericardium
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Chest pericardium
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heart and pericardium
7 cases
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Heart & Pericardium
9 cases
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Epicardium
The epicardium is the visceral part of the serous pericardium and forms the outer layer of the cardiac wall.
Gross anatomy
The epicardium is the visceral part of the serous pericardium, envelopes the heart, contains a variable amount of epicedial fatty tissue adjoining the myocardium at its ou...
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Pericardial agenesis
Pericardial agenesis is a rare condition where there is the absence of the pericardium to varying degrees. If it is only a small portion of the pericardium that is absent it is known as a pericardial defect.
Epidemiology
According to a surgical and pathological series, the prevalence (inclusiv...
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Pericardial thickening
Pericardial thickening refers to an abnormally thickened state of the pericardium and may occur in inflammatory (i.e. pericarditis) as well as non-inflammatory situations.
Many consider a maximum thickness ~2 mm (as measured on CT/MRI) as the upper limit of normal, with a thickness greater than...
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Pneumopericardium
Pneumopericardium represents gas (usually air) within the pericardium, thus surrounding the heart.
Pathology
Etiology
Underlying causes include:
positive pressure ventilation
thoracic surgery/pericardial fluid drainage
penetrating trauma
blunt trauma (rare)
infectious pericarditis with ...
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Pericardial tumors
There are a number of tumors that can involve the pericardium. They include
primary pericardial tumors
primary pericardial mesothelioma
pericardial sarcoma(s)
pericardial liposarcoma
pericardial fibrosarcoma
pericardial fibroma
primary pericardial lymphoma
pericardial hemangioma
pericar...
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Thorax: Heart & Pericardium
23 cases
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Pericardial mesothelioma
Pericardial mesothelioma refers to mesothelioma arising primarily from the pericardium.
Epidemiology
They are rare and are only thought to account for ~0.7% of all malignant mesotheliomas. There is male to female predominance of approximately 3:1.
Clinical presentation
The presentation of p...
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Pericardial calcification
Pericardial calcification is usually seen in individual patients with a history of pericarditis and may be associated with constrictive pericarditis.
Pathology
Although historically infective pericarditis was the most common cause, a wide variety of insults can lead to calcification of the pe...
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Mediastinum & Pericardium PART 1
34 cases, 43 slides
Mediastinum Basics and Vascular Variants
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Pericardial teratoma
Pericardial teratomas are type of primary pericardial tumor. They are usually diagnosed in infants and neonates. As with all teratomas, they are comprised of contain endodermal, mesodermal and neuroectodermal germinal layers. While they are usually benign tumors, they may be life-threatening du...
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Pericardial lipoma
Pericardial lipomas are slowly growing benign tumors of the pericardium that are asymptomatic unless large in size, where they can cause pressure symptoms.
Clinical presentation
Pericardial lipomas are usually asymptomatic.
Occasionally non-specific symptoms are present including:
chest pain...
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Septal bounce
Septal bounce is a sign of ventricular interdependence on echocardiography, cardiac CT, and cardiac MRI, manifested by paradoxical interventricular septal movement during early diastole (i.e. initial septal movement towards and then away from the left ventricle) seen mainly in constrictive peric...
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Tuberculous pericarditis
Tuberculous pericarditis is an infection of the pericardium with tubercle bacilli that features different pathological stages and is the most common form of cardiac tuberculosis.
Epidemiology
Tuberculous pericarditis makes up for ≤4% of pericardial disease in developed countries but is the maj...
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