Abstract:2013;8(5-6):176. Cardiologia CROATICA Constrictive pericarditis classically presents as a progressive and debilitating condition characterized by pericardial fibrosis, with or without calcification 1 . This results in chronic refractory congestive heart failure for which pericardiectomy is often required. Until relatively recently, the development of constrictive physiology was presumed to be irreversible 2 . However, in the past two decades there have been reports describing transient forms of constrictive pe… Show more
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