The constrictive pericarditis was assumed to be due to tuberculosis. Pericardiectomy was scheduled, and chemotherapy for tuberculosis begun. On the 14th hospital day, while awaiting surgery ...

On the contrary, pericardiectomy is recommended for persistent constrictive pericarditis. Pericardiectomy in experienced centers is the treatment of choice for constrictive pericarditis and it ...

There is a need to review the multimodality imaging techniques, as well as the emerging role of the newer noninvasive imaging modalities in the field of constrictive pericarditis (CP). Therefore, the ...

From the Departments of Medicine and of Radiology, Western Reserve University, and the University hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. Sixty-one patients with chronic cardiac compression were ...

Differentiating restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) from constrictive pericarditis (CP) on echocardiography can be challenging but is critical, as the management differs significantly.

The long-term prognosis for patients who have idiopathic pericarditis with associated myocarditis is excellent. 7, 8 The evolution to constrictive pericarditis is rare in idiopathic or viral acute ...

Tuberculous pericarditis is a serious complication of TB and is difficult to diagnose as it presents with diverse, non-specific symptoms. Patients often present with late complications such as ...

In cases of rapidly progressive TB pericarditis such as the one described above, studies have shown that a high proportion of patients treated with medication and pericardiocentesis alone will ...

Patients with tuberculous pericarditis present mostly with effusive pericarditis (79.5%), effusive constrictive pericarditis (15.1%) and myopericarditis (13%); a large proportion of them (up to 20%) ...

Your ribs could hurt because of an injury, inflammation, or an autoimmune condition. Referred pain from other organs, like the kidneys, can also cause pain in the rib cage area. Rib pain is usually ...

Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans is an important respiratory illness because of its underlying irreversible fibrotic process, and is defined as concentric fibrosis in the bronchiolar ...