Heart Failure by a Calcific Pericardial Ring: A case report.
- Author:
Seong Beom HONG
1
;
Byung Hee AHN
;
Sang Wan RYU
;
In Suk JUNG
;
Sang Hyung KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School. bhahn@chonnam.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Constrictive pericarditis;
Heart failure;
Calcification
- MeSH:
Cardiac Tamponade;
Heart Failure*;
Heart*;
Humans;
Inflammation;
Pericarditis, Constrictive;
Sarcoidosis;
Tuberculosis
- From:The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
2005;38(9):648-651
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
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.
