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Severe liver failure with ascites may be associated with cardiac disease and may be the primary manifestation of constrictive pericarditis or aortic dissection. We report a case of a patient with a chief complaint of ascites for whom close examination revealed that the liver injury was attributed to constrictive pericarditis and chronic aortic dissection, with immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related disease (IgG4-RD) as the primary cause.
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