Transient constrictive pericarditis diagnosed by cardiac magnetic resonance, 67Ga scintigraphy, and positron emission tomography

Elevated Serum IgG4 Complicated by Pericardial Involvement with a Patchy ¹⁸F-FDG Uptake in PET/CT: Atypical Presentation of IgG4-related Disease

“…2). Recently, Nakao et al (25) reported a patient with transient constrictive pericarditis who showed the diffuse uptake of 18 F-FDG in the pericardium which diminished after glucocorticoid therapy, suggesting the presence of acute and reversible lesions in the pericardium. Moreover, Zhang et al (16) described the imaging characteristics of 18 F-FDG-PET/CT in IgG4-RD patients, including a patchy pericardial lesion.…”

Transient Constrictive Pericarditis Following Cardiac Surgery

“…10) On the other hand, few cases of transient CP have been reported. [1][2][3][4][5] Sagrista-Sauleda and colleagues reported that 16 of 177 patients with acute idiopathic constrictive pericarditis had a transient course. 1) Also, Haley and colleagues investigated the cause and natural history of transient CP, and reported that 36 of 212 patients (including 9 of 48 following cardiovascular surgery) who had echocardiographic findings of CP showed resolution of constrictive hemodynamics without a pericardiectomy in follow-up echocardiogram findings.…”

“…However, a few reports have noted that CP was treated successfully by conservative therapy including administrations of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and steroids. [1][2][3][4][5] Such a pathophysiology has been termed transient CP. Herein, we describe 2 cases of transient CP following cardiac surgery that recovered after receiving NSAID administrations.…”

Constrictive tuberculous pericarditis diagnosed using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography: a report of two cases

“…Some reports and clinical studies have dealt with the usefulness of 18 F-FDG-PET-CT for the diagnosis and monitoring of pulmonary tuberculosis [9,10]. PET scans using 18 F-FDG are useful for differentiating tuberculous pulmonary nodules from malignancies but can also provide information about disease activity, enabling the immediate start of antitubercular treatment before a definite diagnosis based on bacteriology, which is time-consuming and sometimes produces false-negative results, becomes available in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis [10][11][12].…”