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Echocardiography in pericardial disease.

Wann S, Passen E

Wisconsin Heart Hospital, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA. samuelwann@whvc.org

Since its introduction into clinical cardiology in the 1960's, echocardiography has become an essential and integral part of the evaluation of the cardiac patient. Dr. Harvey Feigenbaum had a seminal role in popularizing echocardiography. Detection of pericardial effusion was one of the first applications of echocardiography to gain widespread acceptance. Over the past 40 years, echocardiography has become a ubiquitous, first line tool for evaluating the pericardium and other cardiac structures.

Published 31 December 2007 in J Am Soc Echocardiogr, 21(1): 7-13.
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