Open AccessMorphologic aspects of pericardial heart disease: Part II
Author(s) -
Waller Bruce F.,
Taliercio Charles P.,
Howard Jane,
Green Frank,
Orr Charles M.,
Slack John D.
Publication year - 1992
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.4960150413
Subject(s) - medicine , pericardium , myocardial infarction , heart disease , disease , pathology , fibrin , pericarditis , cardiology , immunology
Pericardial heart disease is a common entity at necropsy. Frequently, focal areas of fibrin deposits or parietal‐visceral pericardial adhesion are observed at necropsy without previous clinical evidence of pericardial dysfunction. Some of these instances are related to clinically silent acute or healed myocardial infarction but the vast majority of cases are incidental (idiopathic) findings. The purpose of this review is to summarize various morphologic responses of the pericardium and to provide an etiologic framework for these responses. Part II will review specific morphologic responses of pericardial layers to selected diseases.