Trapped heart in heavily calcified pericardium

• Main Authors: Mohd Aizuddin Zaimi, Ahmad Zuhdi Mamat, Mohamad Ziyadi Ghazali, Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria, Nik Amin Sahid, Firdaus Hayati
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2020
• Subjects: RB Pathology
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29984/1/Trapped%20heart%20in%20heavily%20calcified%20pericardium%20FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29984/2/Trapped%20heart%20in%20heavily%20calcified%20pericardium%20ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/29984/; https://academic.oup.com/omcr/article/2020/10/omaa083/5936351?guestAccessKey=87cae40e-0ea7-4917-9541-00338ed729ba; https://doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omaa083

Constrictive pericarditis is a disabling disease of the heart, which causes cardiac diastolic dysfunction. We present a case of a 44-year-old gentleman with a history of blunt chest trauma who presented with constrictive pericarditis with right-sided heart failure. Imaging studies revealed a calcifi...