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Constrictive Pericarditis with Constrictive Epicarditis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Dan Lindblom, Tel: +46 704840172, Fax: +46 8 331931, Email: dan.lindblom@karolinska.se, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden.

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A 63 year old male was referred because of heart failure. He had received combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy for a thymic carcinoma seven years earlier and was considered in remission. He was severely symptomatic, mainly from right heart failure, with leg oedema and with large amounts of ascites, requiring frequent laparocenteses. He had been treated with steroids and high doses of diuretics orally and intravenously for several months with limited clinical response. A preoperative computed tomography . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2009; 17:102-104
© 2009 by SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0218492309102332