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- Title
Fatal outcome of constrictive pericarditis in rheumatoid arthritis.
- Authors
Härle, Peter; Salzberger, Bernd; Glück, Thomas; Schölmerich, Jürgen; Müller-Ladner, Ulf
- Abstract
This is a report of a 39-year-old patient diagnosed with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 17. The patient died 2 years after the onset of extra-articular cardiac symptoms. This case demonstrates the devastating course of progressive constrictive pericarditis under sole medical therapy and emphasizes the importance of early radical pericardectomy to avoid progression of disease and secondary complications with fatal outcome. Further, we discuss risk factors, diagnostic caveats, diagnostic tests and therapy of hemodynamically relevant contrictive pericarditis.
- Subjects
RHEUMATOID arthritis; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM diseases; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; BLOOD hyperviscosity syndrome; RHEUMATISM
- Publication
Rheumatology International, 2003, Vol 23, Issue 6, p312
- ISSN
0172-8172
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00296-003-0300-9