How would you treat a patient with constrictive pericarditis ?
• Surgery is the only satisfactory treatment: Complete surgical resection of the pericardium (myocardial inflammation or fibrosis may delay symptomatic response).
Patients with tuberculous pericarditis should be pre-treated with antituberculosis therapy; if the diagnosis is confirmed after pericardial resection, full anti-tuberculous therapy should be continued for 6-12 months after resection. C.S. Beck (1894-1971), surgeon, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. W. Broadbent(1868-1951), English physician who qualified from St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. He described the Broadbent sign in constrictive pericarditis, which is an indrawing of the 11th and 12th left ribs with a narrowing and retraction of the intercostal space posteriorly; this occurs as a result of pericardial adhesions to the diaphragm.
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• Surgery is the only satisfactory treatment: Complete surgical resection of the pericardium (myocardial inflammation or fibrosis may delay symptomatic response).
Patients with tuberculous pericarditis should be pre-treated with antituberculosis therapy; if the diagnosis is confirmed after pericardial resection, full anti-tuberculous therapy should be continued for 6-12 months after resection. C.S. Beck (1894-1971), surgeon, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. W. Broadbent(1868-1951), English physician who qualified from St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. He described the Broadbent sign in constrictive pericarditis, which is an indrawing of the 11th and 12th left ribs with a narrowing and retraction of the intercostal space posteriorly; this occurs as a result of pericardial adhesions to the diaphragm.
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