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Does two-dimensional echocardiography or B-mode ultrasonography improve the diagnosis of loculated pericardial effusion?
Does two-dimensional echocardiography or B-mode ultrasonography improve the diagnosis of loculated pericardial effusion?
Two-dimensional echocardiography and B-mode ultrasonography are superior to M-mode for defining loculated pericardial effusions.
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Supports two-dimensional echocardiography for loculated effusions; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Two cases of loculated pericardial effusion resulting in cardiac tamponade are presented. The loculated nature and extent of the effusion was best defined by two-dimensional echocardiography or B- mode ultrasonography. Cross-sectional images should probably be obtained in all cases of suspected loculated pericardial effusion and in patients in whom the interpretation of the M-mode echocardiogram is equivocal as to the presence or absence of pericardial effusion.
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