Congenital Pericardial Defects

Abstract

A recent case report of partial deficiency of the pericardium¹ has brought such cases reported in the world's literature to a total of 101 since 1559, when M. Realdus Columbus² first described the condition. The statement by Hering et al.¹ that the diagnosis of partial deficiency of the pericardium could be made before thoracotomy, if adequate angiocardiograms were available, prompted this report of another such case, in which the diagnosis, though apparent in retrospect from examination of the angiocardiograms, was not made until thoracotomy, owing to lack of appreciation of the existence of the entity.Case ReportP.C., an asymptomatic . . .