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A patient with a 7-year history of worsening dyspnea and edema was diagnosed with constrictive pericarditis via echocardiography and treated with pericardiectomy.
Case Report (n=1)
Delayed diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis can occur, and echocardiography is key to identifying the structural and hemodynamic features necessary for diagnosis.
Alerts clinicians to constrictive pericarditis after prolonged symptoms; case report leaves open generalizability of echocardiography-first diagnosis.
Constrictive pericarditis can lead to compromised diastolic ventricular filling due to pericardial inflammation and fibrosis. A diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis was established by identifying structural and hemodynamic features through echocardiography. We present a case of constrictive pericarditis, which manifested in the form of gradually worsening dyspnea and lower-extremity edema over a 7 years period. The patient was diagnosed with constrictive pericarditis using echocardiography, and underwent a pericardiectomy.
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Wang et al. (2024) conducted a case report in Constrictive pericarditis (n=1). Pericardiectomy was evaluated. A patient with a 7-year history of worsening dyspnea and edema was diagnosed with constrictive pericarditis via echocardiography and treated with pericardiectomy.
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