Chatterjee Kanu, Alpert Joseph
Chatterjee Center for Cardiac Research, University of California-San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, 11th Floor, Moffitt Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Heart Fail Monit. 2003;3(4):118-26.
Constrictive pericarditis and restrictive cardiomyopathy, two relatively uncommon clinical conditions, create a diagnostic dilemma primarily because of the many similarities in both their clinical and hemodynamic presentations. However, considerable differences exist in the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis between these two syndromes. Furthermore, the precise diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis and restrictive cardiomyopathy is mandatory, as the former is often curable whereas only palliative treatments are available for the latter. In this brief review, similarities and differences in the various aspects of constrictive pericarditis and restrictive cardiomyopathy will be discussed.
缩窄性心包炎和限制型心肌病是两种相对少见的临床病症，主要因其临床和血流动力学表现存在诸多相似之处而造成诊断难题。然而，这两种综合征在病理生理学、治疗及预后方面存在显著差异。此外，准确诊断缩窄性心包炎和限制型心肌病至关重要，因为前者往往可治愈，而后者仅能进行姑息治疗。在这篇简短的综述中，将讨论缩窄性心包炎和限制型心肌病各方面的异同。
