Key result
A chest radiograph in a 70-year-old man with chronic dyspnoea revealed pericardial calcification, prompting consideration of constrictive pericarditis.
Case Report (n=1)
Pericardial calcification on a chest radiograph in a patient with dyspnoea should prompt consideration of constrictive pericarditis and further evaluation with echocardiography.
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Pericardial calcification on chest radiograph may signal constrictive pericarditis in chronic dyspnea; leaves open its diagnostic yield in larger cohorts.
Kho et al. (2017) conducted a case report in Dyspnoea and pericardial calcification (n=1). Chest radiograph was evaluated on Diagnosis of pericardial calcification. A chest radiograph in a 70-year-old man with chronic dyspnoea revealed pericardial calcification, prompting consideration of constrictive pericarditis.
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