Constrictive Pericarditis Associated with Atypical Antipsychotics

Chronic constrictive pericarditis associated with asbestosis.

Observation of chronic constrictive pericarditis associated with pulmonary asbestosis is reported here. Heart catheterization revealed typical patterns of cardiac constriction. The diagnosis of asbestosis was based on pathologic features associated with a long history of asbestos dust exposure without evidence for tuberculosis. The etiology of this constrictive pericarditis was related to an as...

Chronic constrictive pericarditis associated with toxoplasmosis.

Chronic constrictive pericarditis in association with rheumatoid disease.

THE ASSOCIATION of rheumatoid states with pericarditis is known."2 Coincidence of rheumatoid arthritis and chronic constrictive pericarditis is uncommon and represents a fascinating study in the pathogenesis of pericardial constriction. Repeated episodes of acute pericarditis associated with migratory polyarthritis and gradual development of constrictive pericarditis can seldom be documented. A...

Collagen diseases as a cause of constrictive pericarditis.

Seven patients with constrictive pericarditis associated with collagen disease underwent pericardiectomy with good results in all but one. The collagen disease was confirmed as rheumatoid arthritis in five patients, but in two its nature remained obscure. In one case the illness was marked by a persistent eosinophilia and eosinophilic infiltration of the pericardium. The association of constric...

Recurrent constrictive pericarditis associated with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis: A case report

INTRODUCTION Constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon disease characterized by impaired diastolic filling of the ventricles, encased in a fibrotic pericardium resulting from an inflammatory process. Rheumatoid arthritis is a rare cause of constrictive pericarditis, usually due to a concomitant acute or chronic serositis. PRESENTATION OF CASE This paper presents a unique case of recurrent cons...