Septal bounce in constrictive pericarditis. Diagnosis and dynamic evaluation with multidetector CT.
Sixteen-slice multidetector CT findings of a case of constrictive pericarditis in a pediatric patient are presented. Multidetector CT depicted a variety of diagnostic findings including dynamic evaluation of interventricular septal motion through the cardiac cycle, documenting a diastolic septal bounce. This case illustrates the full capabilities of multidetector cardiac CT in the evaluation of pericardial pathology.
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Rambam Medical Center, P.O.B. 9602, Haifa 31096, Israel. ghersine@hotmail.com
Eduard
E
Ghersin
Jonathan
J
Lessick
Diana
D
Litmanovich
Amos
A
Ofer
Ronit
R
Elhasid
Avraham
A
Lorber
Robert
R
Dragu
Shmuel
S
Rispler
Motti
M
Haimi
Ahuva
A
Engel
D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006346:Heart Septum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed