Elbadawi Ayman, Baig Basarat, Alotaki Erfan, Khalid Heena, Khan Muhammad
Ayman Elbadawi is a cardiology fellow at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Tex. At Rochester (N.Y.) General Hospital, Basarat Baig is a hospitalist, Erfan Alotaki is an internal medicine resident, and Heena Khalid is a hospitalist. Muhammad Khan is a cardiologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
JAAPA. 2019 May;32(5):37-39. doi: 10.1097/01.JAA.0000554223.33382.c0.
This article describes a patient who presented to the ED after multiple episodes of syncope. His physical examination was unremarkable and an initial workup was negative. Transthoracic echocardiography and chest CT confirmed the diagnosis of congenital complete absence of the pericardium, a rare developmental abnormality most common in men.
本文描述了一名在多次晕厥发作后就诊于急诊科的患者。他的体格检查无异常，初步检查结果为阴性。经胸超声心动图和胸部CT确诊为先天性心包完全缺如，这是一种罕见的发育异常，在男性中最为常见。
