Early-onset post-cardiotomy severe constrictive pericarditis: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Constrictive pericarditis (CP) can be one of the most challenging conditions to diagnose within cardiovascular medicine. Iatrogenic causes of CP are increasingly recognized in higher income countries. This case provides insight into the need for clinical suspicion when diagnosing this relatively under recognized clinical entity as well as the need for multimodality imaging combined with invasive haemodynamic assessment.

Case summary

A 68-year-old man presented with decompensated heart failure 4 weeks after open-heart surgery. A diagnosis of early-onset post-cardiotomy CP was made using multimodality imaging and invasive haemodynamic assessment, which demonstrated the cardinal features of constrictive physiology. Surgical intervention with two pericardiectomy proce

SUBMITTER: Mikhail P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9446685 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature