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Blunt trauma as a suspected cause of delayed constrictive pericarditis: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Constrictive pericarditis is a heterogeneous disease with many causes. Traumatic hemopericardium is an uncommon initiating cause. We report the case of a man developing constrictive pericarditis after blunt chest trauma, in order to highlight an approach to diagnosing the condition and...

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Autores principales: Anderson, Eric M, Jaroszewski, Dawn E, Arabia, Francisco A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3058085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21345214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-76