Heart Failure by a Calcific Pericardial Ring: A case report / 대한흉부외과학회지
The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
;
: 648-651, 2005.
Article
in Korean
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-183465
ABSTRACT
Calcific constrictive pericarditis is considered to be a nonspecific response to chronic inflammation. This disease has become rare, because the cause of it is usually tuberculosis, which has the tendency to decrease. Other possible causes of it include radiation, rheumatoid disorders, sarcoidosis, and trauma. Whatever the etiology, it can lead to cardiac tamponade by reducing cardiac diastolic filling. We report, herein, the case of a patient with heart failure by a calcific pericardial ring.
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Main subject:
Pericarditis, Constrictive
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Sarcoidosis
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Tuberculosis
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Cardiac Tamponade
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Heart
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Heart Failure
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Inflammation
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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