"Hot Septum" Sign of Constrictive Pericarditis.

JACC Case Rep

Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University Langone Health, Grossman School of Medicine at NYU, New York, New York.

Published: February 2020

In patients with constrictive pericarditis, a characteristic reduction in the regional longitudinal strain seen in the areas of the left ventricular free wall and relative sparing of the septal longitudinal strain values create an easily recognizable bullseye plot pattern that can be described as "hot septum." ().

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8298570PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.12.024DOI Listing

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