Armored Heart Because of Tuberculous Constrictive Pericarditis

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Mar;12(3):e008726. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.008726.

Authors

Takafumi Uchi¹, Daihiko Hakuno², Tomoaki Fukae³, Masashi Takahashi², Shunichi Takiguchi², Hui-Chong Li², Kenya Nishizawa², Hiroyuki Nozaki¹, Koichiro Sueyoshi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan (T.U., H.N.).
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan (D.H., M.T., S.T., H.-C.L., K.N., K.S.).
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Kawasaki Municipal Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan (T.F.).

PMID: 30803258
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.008726

No abstract available

Keywords: inflammation; magnetic resonance imaging; pericarditis; tuberculosis.

Publication types

Case Reports
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

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Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
Echocardiography*
Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
Heart / diagnostic imaging*
Heart / drug effects
Heart / physiopathology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Male
Pericardial Effusion / diagnostic imaging
Pericardial Effusion / etiology
Pericarditis, Constrictive / complications
Pericarditis, Constrictive / diagnostic imaging*
Pericarditis, Constrictive / drug therapy
Pericarditis, Constrictive / physiopathology
Pericarditis, Tuberculous / complications
Pericarditis, Tuberculous / diagnostic imaging*
Pericarditis, Tuberculous / drug therapy
Pericarditis, Tuberculous / physiopathology
Predictive Value of Tests
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / etiology

Substances

Antitubercular Agents
Glucocorticoids