CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS - Cardioland

33 Profiles in CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS , Restrictive Cardiomyopathy, and Cardiac TamponadeBeverly H. Lorell and William GrossmanBHL: Harvard Medical School, Hemodynamic and Molecular Physiology Research Laboratory and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts : University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine; Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94143 PERICARDITIS from any cause can be followed by three hemodynamic complications: a pericardial effusion under pressure, resulting in cardiac tamponade; progressive pericardial fibrosis and thickening, causing CONSTRICTIVE physiology; or a combination of both.

Right atrial (RA) pressure recording from a patient with constrictive pericarditis. Note the prominent descent in the right atrial waveform, which indicates that the right atrial emptying is rapid and unimpeded in early diastole.

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