Hechavarría PS, Zorio VB, Rodríguez RV, Álvarez PR, González VA, Bencomo RL

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 393-399
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ABSTRACT

Constrictive pericarditis is a reversible cause of heart failure, characterized by the limitation of ventricular diastolic filling, due to cardiac compression caused by an abnormally stiff pericardium. It should always be considered in patients with symptoms of right ventricular dysfunction. Its most frequent causes are: idio-pathic, following acute pericarditis, cardiac surgery or mediastinal radiotherapy; uremia and human immunodeficiency virus infection. Echocardiography is the main tool in the initial diagnosis. Magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac com-puted tomography —in multimodality imaging— provide additional and conclusive anatomical information for the noninvasive diagnosis. Pericardiectomy is the de-finitive treatment. In this article is presented a series of eight patients diagnosed at the Instituto de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular of Havana, Cuba, from 2017 to the present.

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