Key result
Pericardiectomy remarkably decreased symptoms and edema in a 77-year-old man with idiopathic constrictive pericarditis causing impression and narrowing of the ascending aorta.
Population
A 77-year-old male patient with a 1-year history of progressive dyspnea on exertion and lower extremity…
Design
Case_report
Follow-up
1 year
Authors
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May support pericardiectomy in rare aortic-compressing constrictive pericarditis; leaves open generalizability and optimal selection.
Case Report (n=1)
Pericardiectomy successfully resolved symptoms in a rare case of idiopathic constrictive pericarditis causing impression and narrowing of the ascending aorta.
Tuğcu et al. (2008) conducted a case report in Constrictive pericarditis (n=1). Pericardiectomy was evaluated on Symptoms and edema. Pericardiectomy remarkably decreased symptoms and edema in a 77-year-old man with idiopathic constrictive pericarditis causing impression and narrowing of the ascending aorta.
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