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Chronic effusive pericarditis.
textbooks of cardiology,1' 2, 3 as well as the literature4 on the subject, divide pericarditis into an acute and a chronic form, and consider the latter as synonymous with the various types of constrictive pericarditis. However, a survey of the literature reveals three cases5, 6 in which the inflammation of the pericardium ran a chronic, quiet course with the presence of abundant fluid in the p...
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Clinical and hemodynamic observations are reported in 13 patients who demonstrated a distinct pathophysiologic form of compressive pericardial disease characterized by effusion into a free pericardial space associated with constriction of the heart by the visceral pericardium. The pericardial disease was idiopathic (nine patients) or subsequent to radiotherapy (four patients), with a maximal du...
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Older physicians stressed the tendency to syncope, and the extreme orthopncea which sometimes provoked characteristic postures aptly portrayed in the "pillow sign" of Blechmann (Fig. 1) and the "Mohamedan's Prayer" sign of Hirtz (1911) (Fig. 2). According to Blechmann (1922), squatting, or accroupissement, was described as characteristic of pericardial effusion long before Fallot described his ...
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BACKGROUND Effusive-constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon pericardial syndrome characterized by concomitant tamponade, caused by tense pericardial effusion, and constriction, caused by the visceral pericardium. We conducted a prospective study of its clinical evolution and management. METHODS From 1986 through 2001, all patients with effusive-constrictive pericarditis were prospectively ev...
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movement of the septum transversum after cyst formation. On the other hand, Maier6 regarded pericardial cysts as a congenital structure, but felt that diverticulae resulted from gradual stretching of a herniated portion of pericardium through a weakened fibrous layer in many cases. He suggested that congenital factors may play a predisposing role by providing a weak area of pericardium, but per...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-011-1785-7