title: Congenital absence of the left pericardium in combination with left pulmonary artery hypoplasia, right aortic arch, and secundum atrial septal defect.
abstract: The authors describe a rare congenital anomaly--absence of the left pericardium--in one patient who was operated on for a secundum atrial septal defect. The symptomatology, diagnostic, and therapeutic possibilities are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiosurgery, University Hospital, Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lonský
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stĕtina
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Habal
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marková
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010496:Pericardium / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000002:abnormalities*; D011859:Radiography