Chronic Effusive Pericarditis and Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis
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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...
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textbooks of cardiology,1' 2, 3 as well as the literature4 on the subject, divide pericarditis into an acute and a chronic form, and consider the latter as synonymous with the various types of constrictive pericarditis. However, a survey of the literature reveals three cases5, 6 in which the inflammation of the pericardium ran a chronic, quiet course with the presence of abundant fluid in the p...
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Older physicians stressed the tendency to syncope, and the extreme orthopncea which sometimes provoked characteristic postures aptly portrayed in the "pillow sign" of Blechmann (Fig. 1) and the "Mohamedan's Prayer" sign of Hirtz (1911) (Fig. 2). According to Blechmann (1922), squatting, or accroupissement, was described as characteristic of pericardial effusion long before Fallot described his ...
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C H11ONIC constrictive pericarditis, interestingly enough, was one of the very first pathologic conditions to be recognized. This is natural in view of the rather obvious gross lesion found at autopsy. Hence wlhei the custom of postmortem examinations b)egan to be established, pericarditis and its sequelae were quickly identified. Lower,8 in 1669, described the clinical effect of interference o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2009-8618
DOI: 10.15212/cvia.2019.0020