Congenital absence of anterior pericardium at left ventricular assist device implantation.

Tex Heart Inst J

Department of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

Published: July 2004

We report a case of congenital absence of the anterior pericardium in a 41-year-old man who was undergoing implantation of a left ventricular assist device for treatment of congestive heart failure.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387439PMC

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