Constrictive pericarditis after myocardial infarction.
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Constrictive pericarditis developed in a 55 year old man two years after transmural myocardial infarction complicated by severe acute pericarditis. Pericardiectomy was successful. Although this very rare late complication of myocardial infarction has been reported as a sequela of frank anticoagulant induced haemopericardium, in this case there was no clinical evidence of such an association.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British heart journal
دوره 56 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1986