Constrictive Pericarditis and Worsening Mitral Annular Disjunction After Long-Term Chylopericardium

Mitral and tricuspid annular velocities before and after pericardiectomy in patients with constrictive pericarditis.

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that mitral annulus early diastolic (e') velocity is increased in constrictive pericarditis (CP) and reduced in restrictive cardiomyopathy. However, those studies did not comprehensively evaluate mitral and tricuspid annular velocities before and after pericardiectomy. METHODS AND RESULTS We performed comprehensive echocardiography before and afte...

Constrictive Pericarditis Long after a Gunshot Wound

Constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon post-inflammatory disorder characterized by a variably thickened, fibrotic, and frequently calcified, pericardium. Etiology of the constriction can occur for many reasons. Although foreign bodies are not the common cause of constrictive pericarditis, the long-term presence of foreign bodies, like bullets, is presumed to cause chronic constrictive pericar...

Annular constrictive pericarditis. With an account of a patient with functional pulmonary, mitral, and aortic stenosis.

Five patients with constrictive pericarditis are described, in whom the main constriction was found at operation to be concentrated in an annular band forming a hoop around the pericardial sac, at the level of the atrio-ventricular grooves. In four of them, although the constriction was predominantly at this annulus, the effect on the heart was similar to that resulting from more generalized co...

Constrictive pericarditis masquerading as mitral stenosis.

The five patients presented were considered to have mitral stenosis because of a history of dyspnea on exertion or paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, the presence of a loud first heart sound with an "opening snap," a loud pulmonary component of the second heart sound, electrocardiographic evidence of right axis deviation and left atrial enlargement or radiological evidence of cardiomegaly, especia...

Progressive Constrictive Pericarditis Shortly after Purulent Pericarditis