Key result
A young patient with constrictive pericarditis and a pericardial thickness of 12 mm was initially misdiagnosed as having cirrhosis.
Case Report (n=1)
Constrictive pericarditis with severe pericardial thickening can mimic cirrhosis and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with right heart failure symptoms.
May warrant considering constrictive pericarditis in right heart failure differentials; case report leaves open need for prospective validation.
Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is a disease of pericardium that restricts filling of the heart. Patients with CP generally present to hospitals with exercise-induced dyspnea, pretibial edema and abdominal ascites, and it is sometimes mistakenly diagnosed as liver or renal disease. Pericardial thickening, which is defined as more than 4 mm in diameter, is observed in nearly 80% of patients. In the present paper, we describe a case of CP with a pericardial thickness of 12 mm that was initially diagnosed as cirrhosis.
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Durmuş et al. (2013) conducted a case report in Constrictive pericarditis (n=1). A young patient with constrictive pericarditis and a pericardial thickness of 12 mm was initially misdiagnosed as having cirrhosis.
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