Constrictive Pericarditis Caused by IgG4-Related Disease Requiring Pericardiectomy After Partial Response to Corticosteroids

Constrictive Pericarditis Caused by IgG4-Related Disease Requiring Pericardiectomy After Partial Response to Corticosteroids

Immunoglobulin G4–related disease is a systemic fibroinflammatory disease; pericardial involvement has occasionally been reported in publications. A 79-year-old man with biopsy-proven immunoglobulin G4–related disease with pleural involvement was admitted in acute heart failure, with imaging and hem...

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Main Authors: Eugene Yuriditsky, MD, Aeshita Dwivedi, MD, Navneet Narula, MD, Leon Axel, MD, James M. Horowitz, MD, Mikhail Vaynblat, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-08-01
Series:JACC: Case Reports
Subjects:
constrictive pericarditis
IgG4 related disease
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666084920308639

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