ReviewCureus2021
Epipericardial Fat Necrosis: A Concise Review of Literature.
Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Epicardial Fat Necrosis as a Rare Cause of Chest Pain: Peeling Back the Layers.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Epicardial Fat Necrosis Leading to Constrictive Pericarditis: Missed Diagnosis and Subsequent Resolution.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Epipericardial Fat Necrosis in COVID-19-A Case Report.Clinical case reports · 2026Article
- Epipericardial fat necrosis, the overlooked culprit behind chest pain: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025Article
- Epipericardial fat necrosis: a rare case of chest pain and key learning points.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
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- A twisted diagnosis of chest pain: the prominent role of coronary computed tomography.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2025Article
- Epipericardial fat necrosis as a differential diagnosis of acute chest pain: a case report and algorithm proposal for diagnostic approach.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2023Article
- EPIPERICARDIAL FAT NECROSIS.European journal of case reports in internal medicine · 2023Article
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- Epipericardial fat necrosis: a case report of an underdiagnosed disease.Porto biomedical journalArticle
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Epipericardial fat necrosis (EFN) is an inflammatory process that occurs in the mediastinal fat surrounding the heart. It is a rare cause of acute chest pain and mimics more ominous clinical conditions such as acute coronary syndrome, aortic dissection, and pulmonary embolism. Clinicians are often not familiar with this condition due to its infrequent occurrence, and traditional textbooks of medicine and cardiology have not covered this topic adequately. In the past, EFN had been managed primarily with thoracotomy and surgical excision. This has changed with advances in imaging techniques and their more frequent utilization. Computed tomography (CT) of the chest is essential for the diagnosis of EFN as it allows for the evaluation of the nature and precise location of the lesion. Magnetic resonance imaging helps to differentiate EFN from other mediastinal fatty lesions such as lipomas or liposarcomas. The clinical presentation of acute chest pain along with CT findings of the encapsulated fatty pericardial lesion is adequate for diagnosis. Our review describes the emerging role of imaging in diagnosis and change in management over the last few years.
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