AI Article Synopsis

  • A 19-year-old male patient has a congenital condition where the left pericardium (the membrane surrounding the heart) is missing.
  • He also experiences spontaneous pneumothorax, which is when air leaks into the space between the lung and chest wall, causing the lung to collapse.
  • The diagnosis of the missing pericardium was only confirmed during surgery, but doctors should have suspected it beforehand due to the patient's pneumothorax.

Article Abstract

A 19-year-old male patient with congenital absence of the left pericardium, spontaneous pneumothorax, and a patent ductus is presented. The diagnosis of absence of the left pericardium was made at operation but should have been entertained preoperatively because of the concomitant occurrence of a left spontaneous pneumothorax.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC287673PMC

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