FOLLOWING THE TRAIL OF COMMON TO FIND THE UNCOMMON: A CASE OF CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF THE PERICARDIUM (CAP)

CAP is among the rarest congenital cardiac anomalies (0.007% to 0.015% in autopsy reports to 0.044% in a surgical case series) with a wide array of clinical manifestations. Its presentation ranges from the often-asymptomatic to the feared sudden cardiac death due to herniation and compression of