Trapped heart in heavily calcified pericardium

Mohd Aizuddin Zaimi and Ahmad Zuhdi Mamat and Mohamad Ziyadi Ghazali and Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria and Nik Amin Sahid and Firdaus Hayati (2020) Trapped heart in heavily calcified pericardium. Oxford Medical Case Reports, 10. pp. 345-347. ISSN 2053-8855 (E-ISSN)

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Abstract

Constrictive pericarditis is a disabling disease of the heart, which causes cardiac diastolic dysfunction. We present a case of a 44-year-old gentleman with a history of blunt chest trauma who presented with constrictive pericarditis with right-sided heart failure. Imaging studies revealed a calcified pericardium. He underwent an uneventful pericardiectomy. Calcification is common yet rare if it involves the pericardium. It normally occurs following fibrosis and adhesion which are associated with the chronicity of the disease, hence creating more challenge to the operating surgeon in the pericardiectomy procedure

Item Type:	Article
Keyword:	Constrictive pericarditis , Right heart failure , Calcified pericardium
Subjects:	R Medicine > RB Pathology
Department:	FACULTY > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Depositing User:	SAFRUDIN BIN DARUN -
Date Deposited:	21 Jul 2021 09:40
Last Modified:	26 Jul 2021 09:38
URI:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29984

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