2. Pericarditis : Constrictive pericarditis
When the pericardium is scarred or thickened, the heart has difficulty contracting. This is because the pericardium has shrunken or tightened around the heart, constricting the muscle's heart movement. This usually occurs as a result of tuberculos...
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3. Pericarditis - constrictive: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Constrictive pericarditis is long-term (chronic) inflammation of the sac-like covering of the heart (the pericardium) with thickening, scarring, and muscle tightening (
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4. Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis: I. Some Clinical and Laboratory Observations [1952]
Periodical: McKusick, Victor A. "Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis: I. Some Clinical and Laboratory Observations." Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 90, ([1952]): 3-26. Article. 13 Images.
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5. Pericarditis - constrictive
Constrictive pericarditis is long-term (chronic) inflammation of the sac-like covering of the heart (the pericardium) with thickening, scarring, and muscle tightening (contracture).
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6. Pericarditis, Constrictive: eMedicine Cardiology
If we all had healthy hearts, the mysteries of the heart would not trouble us; however, constrictive pericarditis certainly has been a mystery and remains a diagnostic challenge to this day.
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7. Mission Health - Pericarditis - Constrictive Symptoms & Treatment
Constrictive pericarditis is most commonly caused by conditions or events that cause inflammation to develop around the heart, including:
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8. Constrictive pericarditis
Constrictive pericarditis is a disorder caused by inflammation of the pericardium, the sac-like covering of the heart. Eventual thickening, scarring and contracture of the pericardium occurs causing it to be less elastic. This prevents the pericar...
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9. Constrictive Pericarditis
A condition in which the pericardium, the fibrous sac that envelops the heart, becomes excessively thick and constricts the heart. This constriction prevents the heart from adequately filling, which leads to inadequate and poor heart function. (Se...
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10. Rheumatology Image Bank : Rheumatoid Arthritis: Constrictive Pericarditis, Heart
The fibrous thickening seen in this autopsy specimen has led to constrictive pericarditis. Constrictive pericarditis often does not respond to immunosuppressive therapy or corticosteroids and pericardectomy may be required.
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