Non-invasive diagnosis of chylopericardium by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging | Zendy

María Luaces | Zendy; Isabel Perales | Zendy; Iván J. NúñezGil | Zendy; Jorge Cabezudo | Zendy

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Non-invasive diagnosis of chylopericardium by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Author(s) -

María Luaces,

Isabel Perales,

Iván J. NúñezGil,

Jorge Cabezudo

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp561

Subject(s) - medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , cardiac magnetic resonance , cardiac magnetic resonance imaging , cardiology

A 24-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of massive persistent asymptomatic pericardial effusion. Six months earlier, she had visited her rheumatologist because of polyarthralgias suggesting systemic lupus erythematosus. She had never complained of dyspnoea or cough. On echocardiography, a large, homogeneous pericardial effusion, ‘swinging heart’-type, was found (see Supplementary material, Movie …

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