Congenital Absence of Pericardium: A Rare Case Associated with Severe Mitral Stenosis with Pulmonary Hypertension

Authors

  • MI Zulkarnine Department of Cardiac Surgery, NICVD
  • BMM Choudhury Department of Anaesthesiology, NICVD
  • MF Islam Department of Cardiac Surgery, NICVD
  • N Ahmed Department of Cardiac Surgery, NICVD

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3329/cardio.v3i2.9193

Keywords:

Mitral stenosis, Absent pericardium.

Abstract

We report a rare case of congenital absence of pericardium in a 35 year old middle-aged man, who underwent closed mitral commissurotomy done for severe mitral restenosis developed after Percutaneous Transluminal Mitral Commissurotomy (PTMC) six months back. Operation was done under General Anaesthesia through left anterolateral thoracotomy. Pericardial defect was discovered intraoperatively. There was no clinical symptom that could be clearly related to the defect of the pericardial sac pre-operatively. The recovery of the patient was satisfactory and uneventful.

Key Words: Mitral stenosis; Absent pericardium.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/cardio.v3i2.9193

Cardiovasc. J. 2011; 3(2): 222-225

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Zulkarnine, M., Choudhury, B., Islam, M., & Ahmed, N. (2011). Congenital Absence of Pericardium: A Rare Case Associated with Severe Mitral Stenosis with Pulmonary Hypertension. Cardiovascular Journal, 3(2), 222–225. https://doi.org/10.3329/cardio.v3i2.9193

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2011)

Section

Case Reports