Open AccessA case of right sided heart failure
Author(s) -
Siddharthan Deepti,
Saurabh Kumar 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 - 10.4103/2395-5414.166328
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , constrictive pericarditis , heart failure , differential diagnosis , cardiology , clinical history , physical examination , radiology , pericarditis , right heart failure , case presentation , surgery , pathology
A patient of dominant right sided heart failure for 7 years is presented and discussed, starting from the history and examination findings and going on to all the investigations. The clinical findings, along with the electrocardiogram, chest X-ray, echocardiogram, and cardiac computed tomography are used to arrive at a diagnosis of chronic constrictive pericarditis. The differential diagnosis at each stage of presentation are presented and discussed