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  • Title: Echocardiographic diagnosis of effusive-constrictive pericarditis due to staphylococcal pericarditis after cardiac surgery.
    Author: D'Cruz IA, Pallas CW, Heck A.
    Journal: South Med J; 1991 Nov; 84(11):1375-7. PubMed ID: 1948227.
    Abstract:
    Two weeks after coronary artery bypass surgery, a 43-year-old man was readmitted with fever, pneumonia, left pleural effusion, and pericarditis. Echocardiography showed a localized posterior pericardial effusion, pericardial thickening, and bulging of the ventricular septum toward the left ventricle. Right-sided catheterization indicated pericardial constriction. Effusive-constrictive pericarditis was confirmed at surgery. Cardiac imaging played an important role in diagnosis of this unusual complication of cardiac surgery.
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