title: Incremental value of live/real time three-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis and evaluation of pericardial cyst.
abstract: Pericardial cysts are rare anomalies of the pericardium that are usually asymptomatic and followed by two-dimensional (2D) echocardiography. Here we report a large pericardial cyst that could not be measured accurately by 2D echocardiography but three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography enabled measurements of the cyst that correlated well with computed tomography measurements. In addition, 3D echocardiography demonstrated the mono-trabeculated nature of the cyst further suggesting the incremental value of 3D echocardiography in the evaluation of pericardial cysts. The cyst was subsequently resected surgically.
authors: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA.
authors: Abhilasha
authors: A
authors: Pandey
authors: David D
authors: DD
authors: Daly
authors: Selvin
authors: S
authors: Sudhakar
authors: Navin C
authors: NC
authors: Nanda
authors: Satinder P
authors: SP
authors: Singh
authors: Rahul
authors: R
authors: Gokhroo
authors: Kamel
authors: K
authors: Sadat
authors: Bhavin
authors: B
authors: Dumaswala
authors: Komal
authors: K
authors: Dumaswala
authors: Adilahmed
authors: A
authors: Patel
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D004452:Echocardiography; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008476:Mediastinal Cyst / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity