Open AccessA case of cardiomyopathy: Systemic congestion with minimum clinical features
Author(s) -
Sandeep Seth,
A. K. Gupta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the practice of cardiovascular sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2454-2830
pISSN - 2395-5414
DOI - 10.4103/2395-5414.157557
Subject(s) - medicine , restrictive cardiomyopathy , constrictive pericarditis , differential diagnosis , cardiomyopathy , cardiology , presentation (obstetrics) , heart failure , intensive care medicine , radiology , pathology
A patient with systemic congestion, jaundice and pedal edema is presented and the clinical approached is discussed. The clinical findings, along with the ECG, Chest xray and Echocardiogram are used to arrive at a diagnosis. A brief description of some of the conditions including restrictive cardiomyopathy, constrictive pericarditis, amyloid etc are discussed. The differential diagnosis at each stage of presentation i.e. history and examination are presented and discussed