Complications of pectus excavatum surgery include pneumothorax, pleuritis, hemothorax, pericardial effusion, displacement of bar, pericarditis and cardiac injury, etc. This is the case of a 15-year-old boy with cardiac tamponade caused by pericarditis who had taken the operation for a pectus excavatum repair one year previously. The cause was a sternal wire which was used for attachment of the ...

Background: There are no available reference values on treatment of tuberculous pericarditis in the literature and seems it remains controversial. Methods: Twenty nine patients (age ranges 9 75 years) with tuberculous pericarditis were studied retrospectively in this study. Medical recording of all patients undergoing operation for pericardial tuberculosis at the Cardiothoracic ward of Tabriz U...

Between 1955 and 1972, eight children receiving mediastinal irradiation for intrathoracic malignancy developed constrictive pericarditis. Six of these followed irradiation for Hodgkin's disease and represent 7% of 86 children receiving irradiation for that disease. In patients with Hodgkin's disease, the development of constrictive pericarditis was related to the dose of radiation and the use o...

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the work by Masek and Levis published in a recent issue of The Permanente Journal. They describe a classical electrocardiographic evolution of acute pericarditis. In the presented first electrocardiogram (ECG) of Stage I acute pericarditis, we would like to bring to the readers’ attention an interesting ECG finding: Spodick’s sign (Figure 1). This sign h...

Cardiac troponin I (cTnI), a specific marker of myocardial damage, is widely used in man and of increasing importance in veterinary medicine. It is not commonly used in cattle practice although it might be useful as a diagnostic aid of pericarditis. Pericarditis is a common complication of traumatic reticuloperitonitis in cattle but clinical signs are non-specific and diagnostic aids are not re...

Effusive-constrictive pericarditis is a rare condition. In this report, we describe a case of effusive-constrictive pericarditis caused by seronegative rheumatoid arthritis which was successfully treated with surgical pericardiectomy.

constrictive pericarditis (cp) is an uncommon post inflammatory disorder. it is described as pericardial thickening, myocardial constriction, and impaired diastolic filling. the most common etiologies are idiopathy, mediastinal radiotherapy, and prior cardiac surgery. less common etiologies include viral infections, collagen vascular disorders, renal failure, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, and blun...