There was a large overlap in pericardial volume amongst the reading physician qualitative grading of effusion size (figure 2B). Categorization of pericardial effusion size was improved when based on volumetric estimates (Kappa 0.65) rather than physician estimates (Kappa 0.32; Figure 2B). Variation ...
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 applicati...