Real-world results from Brigham and Women’s Hospital show that Vista Cardiac, AI-driven image acquisition software, improves image quality, shortens scan times and increases patient throughput ...

Electrocardiogram (ECG). A simple test of the electrical activity of the heart. Often changes may occur from pericarditis. Echocardiography (echo). A test that uses sound waves (ultrasound) to make ...

Suspicion of chronic constrictive pericarditis was supported by demonstration of a paradoxical pulse of 15 mm. of mercury although pericardial calcification had not been visualized. At cardiac ...

More information: Shuo Wang et al, Myocardial Blood Flow Quantification Using Stress Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Improves Detection of Coronary Artery Disease, JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging (2024).

Constrictive pericarditis (CP) remains a challenging diagnosis despite the implementation of advanced cardiac imaging. In this study of 381 patients, deep learning using standard apical four-chamber ...

Radiographic examinations, including cardiac ultrasound and chest CT, revealed signs of pericardial thickening and/or pericardial effusion or no abnormalities. Pericardial stripping was performed in ...

There were raising concerns for constrictive pericarditis due to cardiac sarcoidos. Echocardiography (TEE) showed pericardial thickening and calcification adjacent to the left ventricle and dilated ...

Discussion: Effusive-constrictive pericarditis (ECP) is a rare clinical condition characterized by PE with constrictive physiology1. Hancock defined ECP as a pathophysiological form of cardiac ...

Patients may also have characteristic symptoms/signs of acute pericarditis such as fever ... leucocytosis, TTE, CT, MRI and so on) and how long treatment should be continued.

Following the surgery on her left leg, she had CT scans, an MRI and echocardiogram to figure out the cause of ... back to Emergency - after developing chest pains. She was diagnosed with pericarditis, ...

Echocardiogram was performed at the time of enrollment; cardiac magnetic resonance ... There was one case of constrictive pericarditis occurring in a patient who had presented with myopericarditis.