Rheumatic constrictive pericarditis : a case report and review of the literature
| dc.contributor.author | Przybojewski, J. Z. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-18T14:59:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-03-18T14:59:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1981-05 | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.za | |
| dc.description.abstract | A case of calcific constrictive pericarditis in a young White woman with a convincing history of previous acute rheumatic fever complicated by a possible valvular lesion is presented. Cardiac catheterization confirmed the suspicion of significant cardiac compression. Successful pericardiectomy was carried out, but microscopical examination of the excised pericardium failed to demonstrate a cause. In view of the strong past history of acute rheumatic fever and mild mitral insufficiency demonstrated at cardiac catheterization, the author proposes that the cardiac constrictive pericarditis was of reumatic origin. A review of the literature on the association between rheumatic infection and constrictive pericarditis follows. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publishers' version | |
| dc.format.extent | 5 p. : ill. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Przybojewski, J. Z. 1981. Rheumatic constrictive pericarditis : a A case report and review of the literature. SA medical journal, 2 May: 682-686. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2078-5135 (online) 0256-9574 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8072 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Health and Medical Publishing Group -- HMPG | |
| dc.rights.holder | The author | |
| dc.subject | Pericarditis | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Rheumatic fever | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Rheumatic constrictive pericarditis : a case report and review of the literature | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article |
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