Author:
Martin R P,Bowden R,Filly K,Popp R L
Abstract
Ten patients with pericardial fluid who also had striking band-like intrapericardial echoes by two-dimensional ultrasonic sector scanning are reported. Four patients had prior mediastinal radiation and four patients had severe renal disease. One patient had purulent pericarditis and one patient had traumatic hemopericardium. The two-dimensional images permitted recognition of loculation of fluid and led to the suspicion of thickened pericardial membranes. Three postradiation patients had both tamponade and constriction; tamponade alone was present in four additional patients. These data are preliminary but suggest that such findings by two-dimensional echocardiography should alert us to consider an effusive-constrictive form of pericardial disease.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Reference9 articles.
1. Philadelphia;Feigenbaum;Lea & Febiger,1976
2. Localization of pericardial effusion with wide angle phased array echocardiography
3. A new real time phased array sector scanner for imaging the entire human heart. In Ultrasound in Medicine, edited by White D, Brown RE. New York;Anderson WA;Plenum Publishing,1977
4. Cardiac imaging using a phased array ultrasound system. II. Clinical technique and application.
Cited by
73 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献