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Effusive constrictive pericarditis due to rheumatoid arthritis revealed by pericardiocentesis with simultaneous
Tomohiro Harada1, Teruhiko Aoyagi, Yoko Endo
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan. tomoharada-circ@umin.ac.jp
Angiology
|February 28, 2002
Abstract:
A 59-year-old man had a history of rheumatoid arthritis. He presented with incurable pericardial effusion. He was repeatedly treated with pericardiocentesis with only transient attenuation of his symptoms because the underlying pericardial constriction had been overlooked. This time the authors diagnosed effusive constrictive pericarditis due to rheumatoid arthritis using the hemodynamic findings observed before and after pericardiocentesis.