Since acute idiopathic/viral pericarditis is a common cause of ... Therefore, Vp can be increased despite the lack of constrictive physiology. [3] In every patient in whom no respiratory variation ...

In the past five years 10 cases have been reported in which hypoalbuminemia due to excessive protein loss from the gut has been associated with constrictive pericarditis. 5–11 Recently ...

Pericardiectomy should not be considered for constrictive physiology that presents with relatively new-onset symptoms/signs. Empirical treatment of acute idiopathic/viral pericarditis and ...