Pendulous Heart with Alternating Axis: A Suspicious Clue for Diagnosis of a Rare Disease

Abbas Ali  Rafighdoust; Hoorak  Poorzand; Amir Hossein  Rafighdoust; Reza Jafarzadeh Esfehani; Milad  Hemati; Mohammad  Vojdanparast; Mohammad  Vojdanparast

Pendulous Heart with Alternating Axis: A Suspicious Clue for Diagnosis of a Rare Disease

Abbas Ali Rafighdoust ¹ , Hoorak Poorzand ¹ , Amir Hossein Rafighdoust ¹ , Reza Jafarzadeh Esfehani ² , Milad Hemati ¹ and Mohammad Vojdanparast ^{1
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¹ Atherosclerosis Prevention Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

² Student Research Committee, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

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International Cardiovascular Research Journal: March 31, 2017, 9 (1); e11672
Published Online: March 01, 2015
Article Type: Case Report
Received: April 18, 2017
Accepted: October 02, 2014

To Cite: Rafighdoust A A , Poorzand H , Rafighdoust A H , Jafarzadeh Esfehani R, Hemati M , et al. Pendulous Heart with Alternating Axis: A Suspicious Clue for Diagnosis of a Rare Disease, Int Cardio Res J. 2017 ; 9(1):e11672.

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Absence of pericardium is a rare type of pericardial disorders. Left sided pericardial absence is more common than the right one. This disorder may present with a variety of signs and symptoms or abnormalities in electrocardiography and echocardiography. In this report, we discussed diagnosis of partial absence of pericardium in a 52-year-old man presented with a dull left-sided chest pain from 4 months ago with special electrocardiographic features. The axis deviations in his serial electrocardiograms led us to further evaluations with possible diagnosis of pericardial absence. His echocardiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) confirmed the suspicion of pericardial absence. Suspicion of potentially life-threatening cardiac abnormalities should remain even while facing atypical chest pain or other non-specific symptoms. In this case, abnormal electrocardiographic and chest X-Ray findings together with echocardiography were all helpful in referring the patient for cardiac MRI as the imaging modality of choice in such cases.

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Milad Hemati: [PubMed] [Scholar]
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