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SUBMITTER: Bogaert J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2685792 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 20090504
The pericardium and pericardial diseases in particular have received, in contrast to other topics in the field of cardiology, relatively limited interest. Today, despite improved knowledge of pathophysiology of pericardial diseases and the availability of a wide spectrum of diagnostic tools, the diagnostic challenge remains. Not only the clinical presentation may be atypical, mimicking other cardiac, pulmonary or pleural diseases; in developed countries a shift for instance in the epidemiology o ...[more]