Freedom in the chest.

[en] Pericardial agenesis is a rarely seen congenital defect characterised by the partial or, more rarely complete, absence of the pericardium. Most often asymptomatic, it is usually incidentally discovered following the demonstration of heart's laevorotation on imaging, in the operating room or at autopsy. In this article, we report the case of an 80-year-old patient with asymptomatic complete pericardial agenesis fortuitous discovered. Pericardial agenesis observations are extremely uncommon reported in the literature, which substantiate its original epidemiological character. In addition, this observation brings some clinical, electrical as well as iconographic elements to better understand the pathology and raises clinical suspicions. Finally, this case report confirms the exceptionally symptomatic nature of the pathology, illustrating the irrelevance of treatment or specific follow-up.

Disciplines :

Cardiovascular & respiratory systems

Author, co-author :

Piron, Sébastien; Department of Cardiology, University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular

Tridetti, Julien; Department of Cardiology, University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular

Marchetta, Stella; Department of Cardiology, University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular

LANCELLOTTI, Patrizio ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Service de cardiologie

Language :

English

Title :

Freedom in the chest.

Publication date :

21 October 2021

Journal title :

Acta Cardiologica

ISSN :

0001-5385

eISSN :

1784-973X

Pages :

1-4

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Available on ORBi :

since 24 May 2022

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