Cardiac tamponade and constrictive pericarditis - Case of the constrictive pericarditises

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CARDIAC TAMPONADE AND CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS

- Definition
- A few explanations
- The Symptoms
- How to make the diagnosis?
- The diagnosis of gravity
- The Causes
- Treatment
- Case of the constrictive pericarditises

CASE OF THE CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITISES

- CAUSES

It is a classic complication of the tubercular pericarditises. They complicate the viral pericarditises much less frequently.

- DESCRIPTION

In relation to the cardiac tamponade, physicians find:

- The absence of a big heart to the pulmonary x-ray;
- The absence of a pericardiac effusion while achieving the echocardiography, but on the other hand the presence of a thickened pericardium.

- TREATMENT OF THE CHRONIC TUBERCULAR PERICARDITIS

The medical treatment is about the same as the one of the tubercular pericarditis but must be pursued after surgery.

In case of persistent symptoms and thickening of the pericardium to the echocardiography, the complete surgical extraction of the pericardium is possible (achievement of a “pericardectomy”).

File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011

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