Demonstrates the diagnostic approach to chronic constrictive pericarditis presenting as chronic right-sided heart failure.
Multimodality imaging supports constrictive pericarditis diagnosis in right heart failure; single case leaves generalizability open.
A patient of dominant right sided heart failure for 7 years is presented and discussed, starting from the history and examination findings and going on to all the investigations. The clinical findings, along with the electrocardiogram, chest X-ray, echocardiogram, and cardiac computed tomography are used to arrive at a diagnosis of chronic constrictive pericarditis. The differential diagnosis at each stage of presentation are presented and discussed.
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