title: Cross sectional echocardiographic appearance in presumed congenital absence of the left pericardium.
abstract: An unusual and new cross sectional echocardiographic feature, bulging of the inferior left ventricular wall during diastole, is described in a 35 year old woman with congenital total absence of the left pericardium. The diagnosis was made on the characteristic clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and radiological findings.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010496:Pericardium / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography