A Case of Effusive-constructive Pericarditis: an Efficacy of GD-DTPA Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Detect a Pericardial Thickening

Overview

Journal Magn Reson Imaging

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Radiology

Date 1998 Jun 11

PMID 9621977

Citations 6

Authors

A Watanabe

Y Hara

M Hamada

K Kodama

Y Shigematsu

S Sakuragi

K Kawachi

K Hiwada

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Abstract

A 38-year-old man underwent pericardiectomy because of effusive-constrictive pericarditis. The gadolinium-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) enhanced magnetic resonance imaging showed pericardial thickening separate from the effusion, which could not be shown by unenhanced computed tomography. Gd-DTPA enhanced magnetic resonance imaging could be useful for the early detection of effusive-constrictive pericarditis.

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