Why the study?
Does anti-inflammatory treatment improve echocardiographic markers of constrictive physiology and clinical symptoms in patients with constrictive pericarditis?
Comparison
Anti-inflammatory treatment
Authors
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Supports serial monitoring of e' velocities and strain ratios to track anti-inflammatory response; leaves open need for randomized confirmation.
Does anti-inflammatory treatment improve echocardiographic markers of constrictive physiology and clinical symptoms in patients with constrictive pericarditis?
Serial monitoring of lateral/septal e' and LSlateral/LSseptal can be used to identify transient constrictive pericarditis and track response to anti-inflammatory therapy.
Sato et al. (2021) studied this question.