Loculated pericardial effusion in acute pericarditis: diagnosis by combined echocardiographic and radioisotopic techniques.
A young man with a typical clinical presentation of acute pericarditis, on M-mode echocardiography, was repeatedly found to have a relatively echo-free area posterosuperior to the left ventricle, disappearing as the left ventricular apex was scanned. A radioisotopic "pericardial scan" revealed pericardial fluid lateral and inferior to the heart but not at the apex. This represents an additional type of M-mode echocardiographic presentation of loculated pericardial effusion.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging