A Rare Case of Constrictive Pericarditis: Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

A previously healthy 15-year-old adolescent female presented with dependent edema, ascites, and dyspnea on exertion. The result of her initial evaluation was consistent with constrictive pericarditis in the setting of local low-grade spindle cell sarcoma. She was unresponsive to traditional medical...

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Autores principales: Majid, Muhammad, Parker, Joshua, Yaker, Zachary, Abdelghaffar, Bahaa, Agrawal, Ankit, Kumar, Ashwin, Syed, Alveena B., Fritchie, Karen, Tornekar, Vineet, Klein, Allan L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10401052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37545674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.101908
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Sumario:A previously healthy 15-year-old adolescent female presented with dependent edema, ascites, and dyspnea on exertion. The result of her initial evaluation was consistent with constrictive pericarditis in the setting of local low-grade spindle cell sarcoma. She was unresponsive to traditional medical management and required concurrent mass resection and radical pericardiectomy for definitive treatment. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)