title: Echocardiography in pericardial disease.
abstract: Since its introduction into clinical cardiology in the 1960's, echocardiography has become an essential and integral part of the evaluation of the cardiac patient. Dr. Harvey Feigenbaum had a seminal role in popularizing echocardiography. Detection of pericardial effusion was one of the first applications of echocardiography to gain widespread acceptance. Over the past 40 years, echocardiography has become a ubiquitous, first line tool for evaluating the pericardium and other cardiac structures.
authors.affiliation: Wisconsin Heart Hospital, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. samuelwann@whvc.org
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wann
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Passen
mesh_terms: D002305:Cardiac Tamponade / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000266:history*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000266:history*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000601:surgery*