Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis

Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is a rare clinical entity that can pose diagnostic problems. The diagnosis of CP requires a high degree of clinical suspicion. The gold standard for diagnosis is cardiac catheterization with analysis of intracavitary pressure curves, which are high and, in end diastole...

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Main Authors: Hossein Doustkami, Afshin Hooshyar, Nasrollah Maleki, Zahra Tavosi, Iraj Feizi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Cardiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/957497