Abstract
A 34 year old male who had undergone surgical closure of a ventricular septal defect at the age of 4 years, after a long asymptomatic period, presented with heart failure and was diagnosed with atrial flutter and biventricular dysfunction. Chest X-ray showed a band-like calcification in the atrioventricular groove. Echocardiography revealed dilated atria, focal calcification with constriction at the atrioventricular groove, and biventricular systolic dysfunction. Focal constrictive pericarditis occurring in post-cardiac surgery patients is very rare. Here we report a case of focal variant of constrictive pericarditis manifesting in a young male after 3 decades of ventricular septal defect repair.
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Parachikkottil, Farhan; U, Harikishore; P, Shijoy; Kalathingathodika, Sajeer; Prabhakaran, Krishnakumar; and Muneer, Kader
(2025)
"Focal constrictive pericarditis, an unusual cause for biventricular failure,"
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association: Vol. 37
:
Iss.
4
, Article 8.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.37616/2212-5043.1463
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