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Radiology
Imaging of the Pericardium
Built from Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology
What’s inside
6 sections · 101 slides
Overview
- Topics in pericardial imaging
Anatomy and Normal Appearance
Pericardial layers, CT and MRI findings, and the sinuses and recesses
- What the pericardium is
- Pericardial wall layers, inside to out
- Fibrous layer and anchoring
- Pericardium on chest radiograph
- Pericardium on CT
- Normal pericardial anatomy on axial CT
- Normal pericardium on CT reconstructions
- Pericardium on MRI
- Normal pericardium on MRI sequences
- Normal pericardium on MRI sequences
- 1–2 mm
- How sinuses and recesses form
- Oblique sinus
- Oblique and transverse pericardial sinuses
- Oblique and transverse pericardial sinuses
- Transverse sinus
- High-riding superior pericardial recess
- Pericardial cavity proper recesses
- Fluid sleeve around the right inferior pulmonary vein
- Blood supply, innervation, and lymph drainage
Congenital Anomalies of the Pericardium
Pericardial cyst and pericardial defect
- Pericardial cyst overview
- Pericardial cyst imaging
- Pericardial cyst on MRI
- Pericardial cyst on MRI
- When to suspect a cystic tumor
- Pericardial diverticulum
- Pericardial diverticulum on CT
- Pericardial defect overview
- Pericardial defect on imaging
- Partial absence of the pericardium
Acquired Pericardial Diseases
Pericardial effusion and pericardial tamponade
- Pericardial effusion types
- Four kinds of pericardial fluid
- Pericardial effusion types on CT
- Effusion on chest radiograph
- Pericardial effusion on frontal radiograph
- Fat pad sign on lateral radiograph
- Effusion on echo, CT, and MRI
- Effusion on MRI signal
- Transudative effusion on MRI
- Delayed enhancement: magnitude vs PSIR
- Tamponade physiology
- How tamponade develops
- Tamponade diagnosis and echo
- Cardiac tamponade on MRI
- Tamponade on CT
- Hemopericardium and tamponade in aortic dissection
- Cardiac tamponade with acute pericarditis on CT
- Pneumopericardium
- Pneumopericardium causing tamponade
Inflammation of the Pericardium
Acute, fibrous, and constrictive pericarditis; fat necrosis
- Acute pericarditis causes
- Dressler syndrome after myocardial infarction
- How the pericardium reacts
- Acute pericarditis symptoms and signs
- Acute pericarditis on CT
- Idiopathic fibrinous pericarditis on MRI
- Acute pericarditis on MRI
- Myopericarditis on delayed enhancement MRI
- Fibrous pericarditis
- Progression of uremic pericarditis
- Progression of uremic pericarditis
- Calcific pericarditis
- Diffuse pericardial calcification
- Fibrous pericarditis on CT and MRI
- Fibrous pericarditis in systemic lupus erythematosus
- Fibrous pericarditis with adhesions on tagging MRI
- Constrictive pericarditis defined
- Constrictive pericarditis physiology
- Constrictive pericarditis symptoms and echo
- Constrictive pericarditis on CT and MRI
- Constrictive pericarditis on MRI
- Septal bounce
- Respiratory variation in constriction
- Effusive-constrictive pericarditis
- Epipericardial fat pad necrosis
- Epipericardial fat pad necrosis
Pericardial Tumors
Primary and secondary neoplasms of the pericardium
- Pericardial tumors at a glance
- Primary tumors overview
- Pericardial mesothelioma
- Mesothelioma course
- Other primary malignant tumors
- Pericardial angiosarcoma
- Primary pericardial effusion lymphoma
- Malignant yolk sac tumor of the pericardium
- Benign intrapericardial tumors
- Intrapericardial lipoma
- Pericardial lymphangioma
- Secondary (metastatic) tumors
- Pericardial metastases from lung cancer
- Pericardial metastases from lymphoma
- Key takeaways
- Suggested readings
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- Brant and Helms' Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology