Abstract
An unusual and new cross sectional echocardiographic feature, bulging of the inferior left ventricular wall during diastole, is described in a 35 year old woman with congenital total absence of the left pericardium. The diagnosis was made on the characteristic clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and radiological findings.
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