POLYSEROSITIS AS THE MAIN MANIFESTATION OF EFFUSIVE-CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS IN A POST-TRAUMATIC PATIENT

Effusive-constrictive pericarditis as the manifestation of an unexpected diagnosis.

Constrictive pericarditis is a clinical condition characterized by the appearance of signs and symptoms of right heart failure due to loss of pericardial compliance. Cardiac surgery is now one of the most frequent causes in developed countries, while tuberculosis remains the most prevalent cause in developing countries. Malignancy is a rare cause but usually has a poor prognosis. The diagnosis ...

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.

Effusive-constrictive pericarditis post surgical revision for iatrogenic hemopericardium.

AIM A case report of subacute effusive-constrictive pericarditis in a patient with iatrogenic hemopericardium is presented. METHODS A 69-year-old man was referred to our department for percutaneous coronary intervention complicated with hemopericardium with cardiac tamponade. Continuous bleeding after pericardiocentesis required an urgent surgical revision with evacuation of hemopericardium a...