Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is a myocardial disorder that usually results from increased myocardial stiffness that leads to impaired ventricular filling. Biventricular chamber size and systolic function are usually normal or nearnormal until later stages of the disease. Affecting either or both ventricles, RCM may cause signs or symptoms of left or right heart failure. Arrhythmias and cond...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedneo.2015.09.005 1875-9572/Copyright a 2015, Taiwan Pediatric Association. Published CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd third degree consanguineous parentage and delivered at 33 weeks of gestation by caesarean section. The weight at birth was 1.02 kg, and the occipitofrontal circumference was 30.5 cm. She had a wide anterior fontanell...

BACKGROUND Pericardial thickening is an uncommon complication of cardiac surgery. OBJECTIVES To study pericardial thickening as the cause of severe postoperative venous congestion. SUBJECTS Two men, one with severe aortic stenosis and single coronary artery disease, and one with coronary artery disease after an old inferior infarction. Both had coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. MET...