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Tuberculous Constrictive Pericarditis [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: Constrictive pericarditis is characterized by constriction of the heart secondary to pericardial inflammation. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is useful imaging modality for addressing the challenges of confirming this ...
Ali, Aamir +5 more
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Pericardiectomy as a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2016 A 70-year-old man presented with recent onset, predominantly right-sided heart failure. Echocardiogram demonstrated features of hypertensive heart disease and was suggestive of, but non-diagnostic for, constrictive pericarditis (CP). CT demonstrated mild pericardial thickening.
Bernard J. Gersh +3 more
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JACC: Case Reports, 2020 A 72-year-old man on rivaroxaban developed effusive constrictive pericarditis secondary to hemopericardium. His condition improved with anti-inflammatory therapy supporting a diagnosis of transient constrictive pericarditis.
Vardhmaan Jain, MD +6 more
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An Unusual Case of Parasitic Constrictive Pericarditis
JACC: Case Reports, 2023 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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Constrictive pleuropericarditis: a dominant clinical manifestation in Whipple’s disease [PDF]
, 2014 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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Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2017 Objectives: This study was designed to prospectively investigate the effects of pericardiectomy via median sternotomy on intra- and postoperative hemodynamics by a new semi-invasive device (Flotrac/VigileoTM monitor) using arterial pressure waveform ...
Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury +8 more
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Constrictive pericarditis and rheumatoid nodules with severe aortic incompetence. [PDF]
, 2014 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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A Rare Case of Primary Purulent Pericarditis Caused by Streptococcus constellatus
Medicina, 2023 Background: Bacteria-caused acute pericarditis is a very rare entity. It is usually associated with an underlying infection or compromised immune system. Primary purulent pericarditis in a previously healthy individual is highly unexpected; therefore, it
Medeinė Kapačinskaitė +6 more
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Outcomes of pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis following mediastinal irradiation
Journal of cardiac surgery, 2021 Pericardiectomy for postradiation constrictive pericarditis has been reported to generally have unfavorable outcomes. This study sought to evaluate surgical outcomes in a large cohort of patients undergoing pericardiectomy for radiation‐associated ...
S. Pahwa +12 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Aortic body tumors, specifically chemodectomas, are the second most common type of canine cardiac tumor; however, information about treatment is currently lacking.
Giovanna M. Coto +6 more
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