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Echocardiographic features of the interventricular septum in chronic constrictive pericarditis
- Source :
- Circulation. 57:1154-1158
- Publication Year :
- 1978
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1978.
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Abstract
- Echocardiographic characteristics of the interventricular septum (IVS) have been studied in eight patients with chronic constrictive pericarditis (CP). Values of septal thickening (ST) were clearly below normal in all cases. Interventricular septal systolic motion (IVSSM) was normal in four cases, hypokinetic in three and paradoxical in one. In seven out of the eight patients, an early interventricular septal diastolic motion (IVSDM) consisting of a sudden anterior displacement followed by a brisk posterior rebound was recorded. The beginning of this anomalous movement was coincident with the pericardial knock in the phonocardiogram and its peak was coincident with the simultaneously recorded deep "y" trough in the jugular pulse tracing. The tendency toward normality of IVSDM observed after pericardiectomy in six out of seven patients suggests that this peculiar interventricular septal systolic motion may be a frequent and probably specific echocardiographic finding in constrictive pericarditis.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular
Constrictive pericarditis
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
Diastole
Physiology (medical)
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
cardiovascular diseases
Interventricular septum
Pericardiectomy
Aged
Phonocardiogram
business.industry
Pericarditis, Constrictive
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
medicine.anatomical_structure
Echocardiography
Chronic Disease
Pericardial knock
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
Thickening
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Pericardium
circulatory and respiratory physiology
Chronic constrictive pericarditis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15244539 and 00097322
- Volume :
- 57
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Circulation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....74c7db9de645791d64bb631b523d75fc
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.57.6.1154