Pai R G, Tarazi R, Wong S
Section of Cardiology, VA Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA.
Clin Cardiol. 1996 Jun;19(6):517-9. doi: 10.1002/clc.4960190615.
Constrictive pericarditis is a fibrotic process involving both layers of the pericardium and is known to give rise to obstruction to blood flow in the right heart. We report a patient with constrictive pericarditis who had echocardiographic features of mitral stenosis caused by a fibrocalcific mass lesion involving the mitral annulus with infiltration into the base of the posterior mitral leaflet. To our knowledge, this has not been reported in the literature.
