Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.
2007 Oct;40(10):719-721.
Congenital Partial Pericardial Defect Presenting as Chest Pain
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- 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chungnam National University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Korea. jahyu@cnu.ac.kr
- 2Department of Pediatrics, Chungnam National University Hospital, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Korea.
Abstract
- Patients with congenital pericardial defect display few symptoms and this is an unusual disease, so it is generally found incidentally in most of the cases. In some cases, symptoms such as chest pain are found due to partial cardiac herniation. We report here on a 14-year-old girl with dyspnea and chest pain that started during physical activity 3 months before the hospital visit. She was diagnosed with herniation of the left atrial appendage with a partial pericardium defect and she was treated with an operation.
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