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Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension and Assessment of Right Ventricular Function in the Piglet
Published on: November 4, 2015
[Chronic obstructive bronchopneumopathy, mitral valvulopathy and global cardiac insufficiency]
J J Goy1, A Essinger, A M Schindler
1Département de médicine interne, CHUV, Lausanne.
Abstract:
The case of a 61 year-old man is presented. This patient had a rheumatoid arthritis and a cardiac failure. Echocardiography and catheterization revealed a mitral valvulopathy, biventricular dysfunction and conduction abnormalities. Pericardial disease was also present. Differential diagnosis lead to the clinical diagnosis of rheumatoid non constrictive pericarditis, rheumatoid myocarditis, rheumatoid endocarditis and idiopathic calcification of the mitral valve. Anatomo-pathologic findings consisted in rheumatoid pancarditis.
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