The most-common aetiologies of constrictive pericarditis in developed countries are cardiac surgery and idiopathic pericarditis, whereas in developing countries with high tuberculosis prevalence ...

Constrictive pericarditis is a rare disorder that occurs when the thin sac that surrounds and protects the heart becomes stiff and thick, limiting the heart’s ability to pump blood. Symptoms may ...

Effusive–constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon pericardial syndrome characterized by concomitant tamponade, caused by tense pericardial effusion, and constriction, caused by the visceral ...

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

Constrictive pericarditis is long-term, or chronic, inflammation of the pericardium. The pericardium is the sac-like membrane that surrounds the heart. Inflammation in this part of the heart ...

The fibrotic constrictive bronchiolar lesion is rare in connective tissue disorders, and has been described in rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma and lupus erythematosus; while there have been no ...

Angiography showed that her coronary arteries were normal. Although her systolic function was also normal, she had an end-diastolic filling impairment consistent with constrictive pericarditis. A CT ...

Constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon form of heart failure in which the pericardium — the sac of tissue surrounding the heart — becomes stiff and prevents the heart from filling and ...

Of the 49 soldiers who underwent lung biopsy, all biopsy samples were abnormal, with 38 soldiers having changes that were diagnostic of constrictive bronchiolitis. In the remaining 11 soldiers ...

The VA’s system for awarding these benefits does not have a diagnostic code for constrictive bronchiolitis, or CB, which has been linked to post-9/11 military installations in Southwest Asia ...