Rapid progression of pericardial calcification in a patient with end-stage renal disease. |
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Authors: | Constantin B Marcu Eugene Caracciolo Thomas Donohue |
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Affiliation: | Section of Cardiology, Hospital of Saint Raphael-Yale University School of Medicine, 1450 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. bmarcu@srhs.org |
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Abstract: | Dialysis pericarditis is a relatively uncommon cause of pericardial constriction and may be found in patients with end-stage renal disease receiving adequate renal replacement therapy. We present a patient with end-stage renal disease maintained on chronic peritoneal dialysis who developed severe myopericardial calcification over a 2-month period demonstrated by sequential chest computed tomographic scanning. The characteristic hemodynamic findings of constrictive-effusive pericarditis, obtained during cardiac catheterization, are presented and discussed. |
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Keywords: | constrictive pericarditis dialysis hemodynamics |
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