Pericardial Effusion
Posted by: Johnson Francis on: 25 Aug, 2008
Gross enlargement of cardiac outline due to pericardial effusion.
In this case there was underlying severe right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis as well.
Differential diagnosis of gross enlargment of cardiac size on x-ray include:
1. Large pericardial effusion
2. Ebsteins’s anomaly of tricuspid valve
3. Multivalvular heart disease
4. Endomyocardial fibrosis
Tags: Gross enlargement of cardiac outline, pericardial effusion, right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis
