RESUMENLa pericarditis constrictiva (PC) en un síndrome clínico causado por un pericardio engrosado y rígido que dificulta el llenado ventricular. Es una enfermedad crónica, generalmente idiopática, que se presenta clínicamente como insuficiencia cardíaca congestiva (IC) con escasa respuesta al tratamiento médico y con evolución tórpida. La enfermedad de Chagas es una miocardiopatía dilatada que causa sintomatología clínica de IC que no difiere demasiado de otras cardiopatías dilatadas, con manifestaciones que aparecen de forma progresiva. Presentamos el caso clínico de una mujer de 41 años de edad que consultó por IC biventricular, la cual al ser estudiada mediante métodos complementarios se reinterpreta como PC.Palabras clave: pericarditis constrictiva, insuficiencia cardíaca, cateterismo cardíaco. ABSTRACTConstrictive pericarditis (CP) is a clinical syndrome caused by a thickened and rigid pericardium that hinders ventricular filling. It is a chronic disease, usually idiopathic, that presents clinically as congestive heart failure (HF) with little response to medical treatment and with a difficult and slow evolution. Chagas disease is a dilated cardiomyopathy that causes clinical symptoms of HF that does not differ too much from other dilated heart diseases, with manifestations that appear progressively. We present the clinical case of a 41-year-old woman who consulted for biventricular HF, which, when studied by means of auxiliary methods, is reinterpreted as CP.
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