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Constrictive Pericarditis: A Commonly Missed Cause of Treatable Diastolic Heart Failure

Constrictive pericarditis arises as a result of the fibrous thickening of the pericardium due to chronic inflammatory changes from various injuries. Increased pulmonary and systemic venous pressures manifest clinical features of left and right heart failure. Idiopathic or post-viral pericarditis is...

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Autores principales: Bhattad, Pradnya Brijmohan, Jain, Vinay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528763
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8024