Pericarditis, Constrictive
"Pericarditis, Constrictive" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Inflammation of the PERICARDIUM that is characterized by the fibrous scarring and adhesion of both serous layers, the VISCERAL PERICARDIUM and the PARIETAL PERICARDIUM leading to the loss of pericardial cavity. The thickened pericardium severely restricts cardiac filling. Clinical signs include FATIGUE, muscle wasting, and WEIGHT LOSS.
Concept/Terms
Pericarditis, Constrictive- Pericarditis, Constrictive
- Constrictive Pericarditis
- Constrictive Pericarditides
- Pericarditides, Constrictive
Pick Disease of Heart- Pick Disease of Heart
- Pick's Disease of Heart
- Heart Pick's Disease
- Pick Disease, Heart
- Picks Disease, Heart
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Pericarditis, Constrictive".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Pericarditis, Constrictive".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pericarditis, Constrictive" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Pericarditis, Constrictive" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Pericarditis, Constrictive" by people in Profiles.
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Totally Endoscopic Constrictive Pericarditis Treatment: A Case Series. Innovations (Phila). 2023 Jan-Feb; 18(1):97-99.
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Constrictive pericarditis following heart transplantation: Reality or fiction? Echocardiography. 2021 11; 38(11):1973-1977.
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Meta-Analysis of Population Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Pericardiectomy for Constrictive Pericarditis. Am J Cardiol. 2021 05 01; 146:120-127.
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Multimodality approach to the diagnosis and management of constrictive pericarditis. Echocardiography. 2020 04; 37(4):632-636.
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Armored Heart Because of Tuberculous Constrictive Pericarditis. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 03; 12(3):e008726.
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Clinical Utility of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pericardial Diseases. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2018; 14(3):200-212.
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Pericardial disease: a clinical review. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2016; 14(4):525-39.
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Quantitative assessment of pericardial delayed hyperenhancement predicts clinical improvement in patients with constrictive pericarditis treated with anti-inflammatory therapy. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 May; 8(5).
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Prednisolone and Mycobacterium indicus pranii in tuberculous pericarditis. N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 18; 371(12):1121-30.
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Diagnostic concordance of echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance-based tissue tracking for differentiating constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardiomyopathy. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Sep; 7(5):819-27.