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Radiation myocardial fibrosis simulating constrictive pericarditis. A review of the literature and a case report
Author(s) -
Botti Robert E.,
Driscol Thomas E.,
Pearson Olof H.,
Smith J. Chandler
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(196811)22:6<1254::aid-cncr2820220624>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - medicine , pericardiectomy , constrictive pericarditis , pericarditis , hemodynamics , myocardial fibrosis , fibrosis , cardiology , pericardium , radiology , pathology
This case report illustrates heart disease after radiation of the chest for metastatic carcinoma of the breast. The clinical and hemodynamic features of cardiac compression were present and were unresponsive to pericardiectomy. Pathologic examination revealed myocardial fibrosis analogous to those lesions produced experimentally in rat myocardium by x‐irradiation.