Constrictive Pericarditis as a Long-term Undetermined Etiology of Ascites and Edema

Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is defined as impedance to diastolic filling caused by a fibrotic pericardium. The diagnosis of CP is a clinical challenge and requires a high index of clinical suspicion. The signs and symptoms of CP include fatigue, edema, ascites, and liver dysfunction. These can be...

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Autores principales: Kamio, Takahiro, Hiraoka, Eiji, Obunai, Kotaro, Watanabe, Hiroyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5995698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29321423
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9455-17
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author Kamio, Takahiro
Hiraoka, Eiji
Obunai, Kotaro
Watanabe, Hiroyuki
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description Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is defined as impedance to diastolic filling caused by a fibrotic pericardium. The diagnosis of CP is a clinical challenge and requires a high index of clinical suspicion. The signs and symptoms of CP include fatigue, edema, ascites, and liver dysfunction. These can be mistakenly diagnosed as primary liver disease. We present the case of a 69-year-old woman with a 7-year history of leg edema and a 2-year history of ascites who was initially diagnosed with cryptogenic liver cirrhosis and was finally diagnosed with CP.
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spelling pubmed-59956982018-06-13 Constrictive Pericarditis as a Long-term Undetermined Etiology of Ascites and Edema Kamio, Takahiro Hiraoka, Eiji Obunai, Kotaro Watanabe, Hiroyuki Intern Med Case Report Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is defined as impedance to diastolic filling caused by a fibrotic pericardium. The diagnosis of CP is a clinical challenge and requires a high index of clinical suspicion. The signs and symptoms of CP include fatigue, edema, ascites, and liver dysfunction. These can be mistakenly diagnosed as primary liver disease. We present the case of a 69-year-old woman with a 7-year history of leg edema and a 2-year history of ascites who was initially diagnosed with cryptogenic liver cirrhosis and was finally diagnosed with CP. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2018-01-11 2018-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5995698/ /pubmed/29321423 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9455-17 Text en Copyright © 2018 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Constrictive Pericarditis as a Long-term Undetermined Etiology of Ascites and Edema
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5995698/
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