These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Constrictive pericarditis - a case report].
    Author: Gołabek K, Wierzbowska-Drabik K, Pawłowski W, Kasprzak JD.
    Journal: Kardiol Pol; 2009 May; 67(5):529-34; discussion 535. PubMed ID: 19521940.
    Abstract:
    A case of a 56-year-old man with constrictive pericarditis which was diagnosed and operated for the first time in 1996, is described. After that, the patient has been hospitalised for several times because of heart failure. On admission to the hospital, he complained of dyspnea on exertion and peripheral edema. Computerised tomography of the chest demonstrated a thickened, calcified pericardium. The combination of imaging and hemodynamic findings established the diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis. The patient was referred to cardiothoracic surgery for pericardiectomy. The patient had an uneventful postoperative recovery and was discharged from the hospital on the twenty seven postoperative day.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]