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Cardiac Findings on Non-Gated Thoracic CT Case 7

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All right. Let's go to the next case moving right along.

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Let's pull it up. And here's a little bit more of a a general

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chess case as well as a cardiac case

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and I'll start from the top and I want you to take a careful look notice

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how this is a non contrast CTE now

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scroll down through the heart.

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And you can see something odd going on with the herd.

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I'll scroll back up.

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Okay, and let's open the polling questions now and see

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what people think about the

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Abnormality, where is the most significant abnormality

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here?

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All right, just take one or two more seconds to finish

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up.

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Okay, let's close that poll and see what people think.

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Okay. So everyone who voted said pericardium and

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that's that's great because what we're seeing here and

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the clue is the look both

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the location of the heart and the orientation the heart notice

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how the heart looks like. It's rotated in the clockwise

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Direction. It's sort of being diverted toward.

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The left side is rotate toward the

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left or clockwise. If you come up you notice another

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Telltale sign here. Let me go to the one windows.

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You notice that there is lung here where you

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will not notice long on any other scan between the

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aorta and the pulmonary artery insinuating itself

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right there. And that's a Telltale sign

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of this condition or not even condition. But

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variant this is absence of

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partial absence of the pericardium. You

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can see that the pericardium is present on

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the right side, but we don't see a complete pericardium

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on the left side. You can see wispy things

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here, but there's nothing that looks like a normal territorium. So

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this is an congenital abnormality partial absence

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of the pericardium. It leads to this

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sort of leftward rotation of the heart and can

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lead to a very abnormal chest ready graph and I have

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a reconstruction of this radiograph the

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CT that looks like a pseudo radiograph right here.

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You can see that it has these so cold Snoopy Dog

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appearance of the heart that is rotated in

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a

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A leftward direction sort of clockwise rotation

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and it looks somewhere like Snoopy the

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mouth of Snoopy in the ears of Snoopy ears. So

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remember that the larger the

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defect of the pericardium the less likely it is

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to cause any sort of significant abnormality like

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herniation. So when you have

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small defects in the hurting them, they're either surgically created

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or congenital parts of the heart can

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actually herniate on commonly or rarely through

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those defects. But when you have large gapsulin pericardium

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that of course is not as likely to

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happen. So larger defects are actually less likely

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to encounter complications like herniation so

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good. So partial absence of the pericardium was

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that case

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Faculty

Brent P Little, MD

Thoracic Radiologist & Assistant Program Director for the Radiology Residency

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Tags

Pericardium

Mediastinum

Congenital

Chest CT

Chest

Cardiac CT (SCCT Cat B1 Video Case)

Cardiac

CTA

CT