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Case Reports
. 1998 Apr;16(3):347-50.
doi: 10.1016/s0730-725x(97)00296-8.

A case of effusive-constructive pericarditis: an efficacy of GD-DTPA enhanced magnetic resonance imaging to detect a pericardial thickening

A Watanabe  1 , Y Hara, M Hamada, K Kodama, Y Shigematsu, S Sakuragi, K Kawachi, K Hiwada
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Case Reports

A case of effusive-constructive pericarditis: an efficacy of GD-DTPA enhanced magnetic resonance imaging to detect a pericardial thickening

A Watanabe et al. Magn Reson Imaging. 1998 Apr.

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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