Diagnosis and etiological identification in severe constrictive pericarditis in a 14-year-old girl: a case report.

ABSTRACT: Constrictive pericarditis in children is exceedingly rare, and may cause very problematic confusion of diagnosis and etiology identification. In this case, we examined a 14-year-old female patient who had developed signs of significant anasarca which was eventually turned out to be constrictive pericarditis. Affected by the experience of examiners, the patient was not diagnosed or even suspected with constrictive pericarditis when she was initially examined by echocardiography in the hospital where she visited before. Reexamination of echocardiography, cardiac catheterization and non-invasive image techniques were performed to establish the diagnosis finally. Open pericardectomy was ultimately performed and normal hemodynamic parameters and cardiac function were obtained postoperatively. I

SUBMITTER: Huang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7882285 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature