Common causes of constrictive pericarditis include prior heart surgery, a history of radiation therapy, infections such as tuberculosis, chest injury, and other possible factors. Constrictive ...

Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is caused by reduction in the elasticity of the pericardium resulting in impaired diastolic filling of the heart. All types of CP were thought to be irreversible in the ...

Constrictive pericarditis occurs when scarring and calcification of the pericardium result in loss of normal elasticity. This limits diastolic relaxation of the heart and causes congestive heart ...

White — Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School. For record and address of author see "This Week's Issue," page 189. Churchill — Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard University. For record ...

A 41-year-old outdoor workman was admitted to the Jefferson Davis Hospital on April 27, 1963, because of progressive breathlessness. He had been well until 3 months previously, when anorexia, retching ...

Constrictive pericarditis (CP) after allogeneic SCT may develop after infective pericarditis or pericardial GVHD. Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL), also a rare disease, is usually seen in ...

The most common symptom of pericarditis is chest pain, and this is something with which most patients present themselves at a clinic. Diagnosis and confirmation of pericarditis happens in a series of ...

Acute pericarditis is inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart that develops suddenly and causes sharp chest pain. The cause is usually a viral or bacterial infection. The condition is ...

Pericardiectomy should not be considered for constrictive physiology that presents with relatively new-onset symptoms/signs. Empirical treatment of acute idiopathic/viral pericarditis and ...