Constrictive pericarditis after aortocoronary bypass. Apropos of a case
Jazra, C.; Chemaly, A.; Haddad, R.; Chakhtoura, R.
Le Journal Medical Libanais. Lebanese Medical Journal 41(4): 227-229
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-9852 PMID: 7629822 Document Number: 413961
We report a case of pericarditis following aorto-coronary by-pass surgery which gradually developed into chronic constrictive pericarditis. The disease was a long time ignored because symptoms are not specific. In our case the clinical presentation looked like a cirrhosis especially that our patient developed an hepatitis after blood transfusion. In this occasion criteria of diagnostic are reminded. Hemodynamic investigation is still the best method of diagnosis and the only treatment is surgical and consists of pericardial decortication.