A 63-year-old male patient presented with chest pain and signs of volume overload. His work-up revealed a diagnosis of transient effusive constrictive pericarditis of idiopathic etiology. Despite treatment with optimal medical therapy, he continued to experience persistent symptoms eventually requiring radical pericardiectomy.
Keywords: cardiac magnetic resonance; chest pain; constrictive; echocardiography; orthopnea; pericardial effusion; peripheral edema.
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