Agrawal Ankit, Kumar Ashwin K, Majid Muhammad, Yesilyaprak Abdullah, Verma Beni, Arockiam Aro Daniela, Badwan Osamah, Syed Alveena Batool, Klein Allan L
Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pericardial Diseases, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
JACC Case Rep. 2023 Aug 24;22:101983. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.101983. eCollection 2023 Sep 20.
Parasitic constrictive pericarditis is a rare entity. We present a case of a 75-year-old man who presented with dyspnea, ascites, and pedal edema and was found to have constrictive pericarditis on multimodality imaging with positive serology for . Treatment required ivermectin and radical pericardiectomy with significant clinical improvement. ().
寄生虫性缩窄性心包炎是一种罕见的病症。我们报告一例75岁男性病例,该患者出现呼吸困难、腹水和足部水肿,经多模态成像检查发现患有缩窄性心包炎,血清学检查呈阳性。治疗需要使用伊维菌素并进行根治性心包切除术,临床症状有显著改善。()