Open AccessRadionuclide ventriculographic findings in pericardial effusion
Author(s) -
Hakki AH.,
Iskandrian A. S.,
Mintz G. S.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.4960050809
Subject(s) - medicine , asynergy , pericardial effusion , ventricle , effusion , nuclear medicine , radionuclide , cardiology , radiology , radionuclide ventriculography , surgery , heart failure , ejection fraction , physics , quantum mechanics
We present a patient with a large pericardial effusion, in whom the first‐pass radionuclide ventricu‐logram demonstrated rocking motion of the left ventricle and apparent asynergy of the inferior wall. These abnormalities disappeared after removal of the fluid. Inspection of the cinematic display of the images was useful in explaining the apparent asynergy of the inferior wall.