Brothers with constrictive pericarditis – A novel mutation in a rare disease
Familial constrictive pericarditis is extremely rare. We report a case of two brothers both suffering constrictive pericarditis along with having multiple painless joint deformities.
Devendra V. Patil +3 more
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An Unusual Case of Parasitic Constrictive Pericarditis
Parasitic constrictive pericarditis is a rare entity. We present a case of a 75-year-old man who presented with dyspnea, ascites, and pedal edema and was found to have constrictive pericarditis on multimodality imaging with positive serology for ...
Ankit Agrawal, MD +8 more
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A multimodality imaging approach to chronic constrictive pericarditis revealed by a symptomatic atrial fibrillation: case report and literature review. [PDF]
Lahmouz Y +14 more
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Constrictive pericarditis and rheumatoid nodules with severe aortic incompetence. [PDF]
The case of a female patient presenting with constrictive rheumatoid pericarditis and aortic incompetence secondary to valvular rheumatoid nodules is described along with a review of the literature with the aim to highlight this rare cause of aortic ...
Beattie, R +4 more
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Acute Transient Effusive-Constrictive Pericarditis
A 52-year-old female developed acute idiopathic pericarditis, which was complicated with tamponade. Constrictive physiology persisted after pericardiocentesis, and effusive-constrictive pericarditis (ECP) was diagnosed.
Kazuhito Hirata, MD +2 more
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Rare case of salmonellosis-related coronary aneurysm, complicated with myocardial infarction and constrictive pericarditis: a case report. [PDF]
Chiu KHO +4 more
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Constrictive pleuropericarditis: a dominant clinical manifestation in Whipple’s disease [PDF]
Background: Whipple’s disease is a rare, multisystemic, chronic infectious disease which classically presents as a wasting illness characterized by polyarthralgia, diarrhea, fever, and lymphadenopathy. Pleuropericardial involvement is a common pathologic
Alan N Baer +5 more
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Here's the rub: A case of constrictive pericarditis in an adult with cystic fibrosis
We present a rare coexistence of constrictive pericarditis in a patient with cystic fibrosis. Careful attention to cardiac friction rub auscultated on initial examination prompted echocardiography revealing constrictive pericarditis further confirmed by ...
Matthew T. Brown +3 more
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Acute idiopathic pericarditis with transient constriction [4] [PDF]
The etiology and the clinical pattern of acute pericarditis change frequently and some classic assumption and descriptions are outdated.
Barbieri, Andrea +5 more
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Cardiopulmonary assessment of patients with systemic sclerosis for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: recommendations from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Autoimmune Diseases Working Party and collaborating partners. [PDF]
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare disabling autoimmune disease with a similar mortality to many cancers. Two randomized controlled trials of autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) for SSc have shown significant improvement in organ ...
A Gabrielli +81 more
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