Since acute idiopathic/viral pericarditis is a common cause of transient CP, ST elevation and PR segment depression in all derivations except a VR and V 1, and diffuse T wave negativity may be ...

Hello and welcome to another imaging case study. This is Ronald Wharton. I am a cardiologist at Montefiore Medical Center and assistant professor of medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine ...

Constrictive pericarditis is long-term, or chronic, inflammation of the pericardium. The pericardium is the sac-like membrane that surrounds the heart. Inflammation in this part of the heart causes ...

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 ...

In the past five years 10 cases have been reported in which hypoalbuminemia due to excessive protein loss from the gut has been associated with constrictive pericarditis. 5–11 Recently, we observed ...

Pericardial disease are conditions that affect your pericardium. Your pericardium is a flexible, two-layered sac that surrounds your heart. Your pericardium contains your heart in your chest wall. It ...

A 76-year-old woman with a history of childhood tuberculosis was examined before admission to a tuberculosis sanatorium. Over the past 4–5 years, she had been experiencing peripheral edema and ...

There are a few common extra heart sounds that the clinician may encounter. These include ejection sounds that occur with pulmonic or AS heard in early systole, “clicks” that are heard in mitral or ...

Constrictive pericarditis is a rare disorder that occurs when the thin sac that surrounds and protects the heart becomes stiff and thick, limiting the heart’s ability to pump blood. Symptoms may ...

Effusive–constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon pericardial syndrome characterized by concomitant tamponade, caused by tense pericardial effusion, and constriction, caused by the visceral ...

Constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon form of heart failure in which the pericardium — the sac of tissue surrounding the heart — becomes stiff and prevents the heart from filling and pumping blood ...