Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases Executive Summary

by Bernhard Maisch, Petar M. Seferović, Arsen D. Ristić, Raimund Erbel, Reiner Rienmüller, Yehuda Adler, Witold Z. Tomkowski, Gaetano Thiene, Magdi H. Yacoub, Silvia G. Priori, Maria Angeles Alonso Garcia, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Andrzej Budaj,

Martin Cowie, Veronica Dean, Jaap Deckers, Enrique Fernandez Burgos, John Lekakis, Bertil Lindahl, Gianfranco Mazzotta, João Moraies, Ali Oto, Otto A. Smiseth,

Gianfranco Mazzotta, Jean Acar, Eloisa Arbustini, Anton E. Becker, Giacomo Chiaranda, Yonathan Hasin, Rolf Jenni, Werner Klein, Irene Lang, Thomas F.

Lüscher, Fausto J. Pinto, Ralph Shabetai, Maarten L. Simoons, Jordi Soler Soler, and David H. Spodick

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Horowitz classification of pericardial effusions.43 Type A: No effusion; Type B: Separation of epicardium and pericardium (3–16 ml); Type C 1: Systolic and diastolic separation of epicardium

and pericardium (small effusion \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \(>\) \end{document}16 ml); Type C 2: Systolic and diastolic separation of

epicardium and pericardium with attenuated pericardial motion; Type D: Pronounced separation of epicardium and pericardium with large echo-free space; Type E: Pericardial thickening (\

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Pathoanatomical forms of constrictive pericarditis vs. restrictive cardiomyopathy.

Bernhard Maisch et al. Eur Heart J 2004;25:587-610

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