Acute myopericarditis presenting as effusive-constrictive pericarditis– a case report

Acute Viral Myopericarditis Presenting as a Transient Effusive-Constrictive Pericarditis Caused by Coinfection with Coxsackieviruses A4 and B3

Acute myopericarditis is usually caused by viral infections, and the most common cause of viral myopericarditis is coxsackieviruses. Diagnosis of myopericarditis is made based on clinical manifestations of myocardial (such as myocardial dysfunction and elevated serum cardiac enzyme levels) and pericardial (such as inflammatory pericardial effusion) involvement. Although endomyocardial biopsy is...

Subacute effusive-constrictive pericarditis.

Clinical and hemodynamic observations are reported in 13 patients who demonstrated a distinct pathophysiologic form of compressive pericardial disease characterized by effusion into a free pericardial space associated with constriction of the heart by the visceral pericardium. The pericardial disease was idiopathic (nine patients) or subsequent to radiotherapy (four patients), with a maximal du...

Effusive-constrictive pericarditis.

BACKGROUND Effusive-constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon pericardial syndrome characterized by concomitant tamponade, caused by tense pericardial effusion, and constriction, caused by the visceral pericardium. We conducted a prospective study of its clinical evolution and management. METHODS From 1986 through 2001, all patients with effusive-constrictive pericarditis were prospectively ev...

A clearer view of effusive-constrictive pericarditis.

A case of pleural mesothelioma with effusive-constrictive pericarditis.

Mesothelioma infrequently causes pericardial constriction and rarely symptomatic pericardial tamponade. Most commonly, a primary pleural malignancy will extend locally, but primary involvement of pericardium is also well-recognized. However, pericardial fibrosis in conjunction with pleural mesothelioma has not been described before in the literature. We report a case of pleural mesothelioma wit...