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ABSENCE OF THE LEFT PERICARDIUM, SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX, AND PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS.
Cardiovasc Dis
January 1977
Saint Benedicts Hospital, Ogden, Utah.
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.