Distinguishing constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardiomyopathy is a difficult clinical challenge. We review published reports in which hemodynamic criteria were used to differentiate ...

The main disorder that constrictive pericarditis must be distinguished from is restrictive cardiomyopathy, which has a similar clinical presentation and echocardiographic findings. Invasive ...

Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans is an important respiratory illness because of its underlying irreversible fibrotic process, and is defined as concentric fibrosis in the bronchiolar ...

Also, BNP levels are low in patients with heart failure from constrictive pericarditis which differentiates it from restrictive cardiomyopathy where the BNP levels are high. A newer assay ...

Heart failure with preserved LV ejection fraction (eg, restrictive cardiomyopathy, constrictive pericarditis, amyloid heart disease, acute cor pulmonale, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy). Electrical ...