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Constrictive pleuropericarditis: a dominant clinical manifestation in Whipple’s disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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The optimal duration of anti-tuberculous therapy before pericardiectomy in constrictive tuberculous pericarditis

open access: yesJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020
Background It is unclear about the duration of anti-tuberculous therapy before pericardiectomy (DATT) in the patients with constrictive tuberculous pericarditis.
Likui Fang   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Constrictive Pericarditis as an Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

open access: yesCureus, 2020
A young female presented with new-onset rash, oral ulcers and dyspnea without overt features of heart failure. She was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus with early constrictive pericarditis, cutaneous lupus and serositis in the form of ...
Samiksha Gupta   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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]

open access: yes, 2017
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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Calcific pericarditis strangling the heart, an answer to unexplained heart failurediagnostic modalities

open access: yesJournal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Pericardial calcification is often found incidentally from imaging studies and may be a clue to constrictive pericarditis. Constrictive pericarditis often mimics other causes of heart failure, pulmonary, or liver disease, making it hard to diagnose ...
Sondang Jasmine Sitorus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effusive Constrictive Pericarditis [PDF]

open access: yesCongestive Heart Failure, 2009
Effusive constrictive pericarditis (ECP) is a relatively infrequent pericardial condition. The diagnosis is typically made when symptoms and right heart pressure elevation persist despite drainage of pericardial effusion. Visceral and parietal pericardial stripping is an extensive procedure with significant morbidity and mortality but is widely ...
Rajeev, Garg   +2 more
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Constrictive pericarditis after heart transplantation: a case report.

open access: yesEuropean Heart Journal: Case Reports, 2020
Background Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is a disease characterized by inflammation, progressive fibrosis, and thickening of the pericardium. Constrictive pericarditis after heart transplantation (HT) is a rare phenomenon, with a reported incidence of 1.
V. Tchana-Sato   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A difficult diagnosis - constrictive pericarditis and its treatment: a case report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'.
Altaf, Syed Y   +5 more
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Pericarditis constrictiva calcificada: una presentación inicial infrecuente de la esclerodermia

open access: yesCirugía Cardiovascular, 2017
Resumen: Aunque la afectación pericárdica ha sido demostrada de forma habitual en autopsias de pacientes afectos de esclerodermia, esta afectación pericárdica rara vez es sintomática.
Daniel Hernández-Vaquero   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Constrictive pericarditis following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

open access: yesIndian Heart Journal, 2013
Constrictive pericarditis following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery is an uncommon disorder. We report a patient who developed constrictive pericarditis after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.
Anirban Kundu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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