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Pericardiosopy: Endoscopic Insight in Pericardial and Epicardial Pathology

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Percutaneous pericardioscopy is a diagnostic tool for the endoscopic visualization of lesions in both the epicardium and parietal pericardium. It enables safe and efficient targeted epicardial and parietal pericardial biopsy and provides the cardiologist with not only macroscopic but also microscopic evidence of pathologic changes [1].

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine – Cardiology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

    Bernhard Maisch MD, FESC, FACC (Professor of Internal Medicine – Cardiology, Director)

  2. Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia

    Arsen D. Ristić MD, PhD, FESC (Associate Professor of Internal Medicine – Cardiology)

  3. Department of Cardiology Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia

    Petar M. Seferović MD, PhD, FESC, FACC (Professor of Internal Medicine – Cardiology)

  4. Diamond Health Care Centre, University of British Columbia, 2775 Laurel Street, BC V5Z 1M9, Vancouver, Canada

    Teresa S. M. Tsang MD, FACC (Professor of Medicine)

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Maisch, B., Ristić, A.D., Seferović, P.M., Tsang, T.S.M. (2011). Pericardiosopy: Endoscopic Insight in Pericardial and Epicardial Pathology. In: Interventional Pericardiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11335-2_8

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