Tuberculous constrictive pericarditis
Population
A 77-year-old man from a country with high incidence of tuberculosis presenting with severe dyspnea.
Design
Case_report
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports CMR with STIR/LGE for confirming constrictive pericarditis in select cases; leaves open prospective validation before broader adoption.
Structured PICO
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Population
A 77-year-old man from a country with high incidence of tuberculosis presenting with severe dyspnea.
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Intervention
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging with short tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequences, free breathing sequences, and late gadolinium imaging.
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Outcome
Diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis based on imaging findings.surrogate
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging utilizing STIR, free breathing, and late gadolinium sequences is an effective modality for confirming the diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis.
Cite This Study
Raphael et al. (2015) studied this question.