Majid Muhammad, Yaker Zachary S, Brands Chad, Unai Shinya, Klein Allan L
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, AdventHealth Sebring, Sebring, Florida, USA.
JACC Case Rep. 2023 Nov 8;28:102088. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2023.102088. eCollection 2023 Dec 20.
A 63-year-old male patient presented with chest pain and signs of volume overload. His work-up revealed a diagnosis of transient effusive constrictive pericarditis of idiopathic etiology. Despite treatment with optimal medical therapy, he continued to experience persistent symptoms eventually requiring radical pericardiectomy.