Intrapericardial Cyst Formation in Constrictive Pericarditis Simulating Tricuspid Stenosis

Intraperisidial cyst formation in constrictive pericarditis simulating tricuspid stenosis.

CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS is an uncommon disorder with a wide varietv of manifestations. This communication documents two patients who presented with features of a cardiac murmur indicative of tricuspid valve stenosis. In both, exploratory surgery revealed a large cyst within scarred pericardium, narrowing the tricuspid valve. The first patient had generalized constrictive pericarditis. The sec...

Metastatic tumour of right atrium mimicking constrictive pericarditis and tricuspid stenosis.

Though secondary cardiac tumours are 20 times more common than primary lesions,' and cardiac metastases are found in up to 19% of necropsies undertaken on patients who have died of cancer,2 correct diagnosis of secondary spread to the heart is rare. We describe a patient in whom an unrecognised right atrial metastasis was clinically mistaken for constrictive pericarditis while results of cardia...

Constrictive pericarditis presenting as a large mediastinal mass causing functional tricuspid and pulmonary stenosis.

Mirror-image dextrocardia with thoracic-abdominal discordance and normal spleen.

interpret because of tricuspid incompetence, and puIsus paradoxus was not documented; the characteristic hernodynamic features of constrictive pericarditis were masked by the obstruction to right ventricular outflow. I t may be that in our case, where there was severe right ventricular failure with pulsus alternans, the left ventricular output remained constant, and pulsus paradoxus was, theref...

Clinical presentation and non-invasive diagnosis of right heart masses.

Right-sided cardiac masses do not have a uniform clinical presentation. Successful diagnosis is dependent on a high index of suspicion and appropriate echocardiographic examination. Five cases of right sided intracardiac masses have been detected during the period that echocardiography has been routinely available to us--two of right atrial myxoma, one of right atrial thrombus, and two of right...