Pericardial diseases have gained renewed clinical interest, leading to a renaissance in the
field. There have been many recent advances in pericardial diseases in both multimodality …

Chronic pericardial effusion is a common pericardial syndrome whose approach has been
well standardised in recent years. The main challenge associated with this condition is the …

Pericardial effusions, especially large ones, have traditionally been regarded with concern
by clinicians due to the sometimes unpredictable development of life-threatening cardiac …

Introduction Albeit described since 1948, cardiac herniations still represent an under-
recognized clinical entity in the general population, due to their difficult diagnostic detection …

Background Congenital absence of the pericardium (CAP) is rare in clinical practice, the
symptoms vary among patients, and most doctors do not have enough knowledge of the …

Introduction Pericardial effusion (PEF) is a common and challenging pericardial syndrome
with a variety of clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic, incidentally uncovered …

Background: Congenital absence of pericardium (CAP), also known as pericardial agenesis,
represents an uncommon cardiac abnormality and mostly incidental finding. It can be …

Congenital absence of the pericardium is a very uncommon condition that may be focal,
unilateral or bilateral but most frequently involves the left sided pericardium. Clinical signs …

Arrhythmias in pericardial syndromes have been poorly investigated and available data are
mainly obtained from relevant studies however having different endpoints from arrhythmias …

Background Pericardial defects are rare anatomical variations that can present as an
isolated variation or be associated with other conditions. They are usually asymptomatic and …