Subacute effusive constrictive epicarditis.
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1980
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.44.1.44