Vijayvergiya Rajesh, Vadivelu Ramalingam, Mahajan Sachin, Rana Sandeep S, Singhal Manphool
Rajesh Vijayvergiya, Ramalingam Vadivelu, Department of Cardiology, Advanced Cardiac Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 160012, India.
World J Cardiol. 2015 Sep 26;7(9):579-82. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v7.i9.579.
Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is an inflammatory disease of pericardium. Pericardial calcification in X-ray provides a clue for the diagnosis of CP. An extensive "eggshell" type of calcification is rarely seen in CP. We hereby report a case of CP with eggshell calcification of pericardium, encircling whole of the heart. A need for multimodality imaging and hemodynamic assessment followed by surgical pericardiectomy is discussed.
缩窄性心包炎（CP）是一种心包的炎症性疾病。X线检查中的心包钙化可为CP的诊断提供线索。广泛的“蛋壳”样钙化在CP中很少见。我们在此报告一例心包呈蛋壳样钙化、包绕整个心脏的CP病例。文中还讨论了进行多模态成像和血流动力学评估后行心包切除术的必要性。
