Author/Authors :
Watanabe، نويسنده , , Akira and Hara، نويسنده , , Yuji and Hamada، نويسنده , , Mareomi and Kodama، نويسنده , , Koji and Shigematsu، نويسنده , , Yuji and Sakuragi، نويسنده , , Satoru and Kawachi، نويسنده , , Kanji and Hiwada، نويسنده , , Kunio، نويسنده ,
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.
Keywords :
Effusive-constrictive pericarditis , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Pericardiectomy , Gd-DTPA enhancement
