Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium in an Elderly Patient

Abstract

Patients with a complete absence of pericardium require no intervention as they are mostly asymptomatic. Due to the risk of herniation, patients with partial absence of pericardium tend to present with symptoms and may benefit from treatment. We report a case of an elderly patient who presented for severe colitis and was incidentally found to have a partial absence of the pericardium on the right side of the heart.

The Evaluation and Management of Congenital Loss of the Pericardium in A Cat: A Case Report

“…The loss of the pericardium is an uncommon congenital malformation generally characterized by nonspecific symptoms (El Khoury et al 2021). The pericardium may be lost due to a genetic anomaly, and the absence of the pericardium is usually detected incidentally during health screening (Shah et al 2015;Aslan et al 2021).…”