A must read for all clinical cardiologists and fellows . A comprehensive review on pericardial diseases.
It also highlights a new diagnostic parameter in cath lab to differentiate constrictive pericarditis from restrictive cardiomyopathy .The area subtended by RV pressure curve and LV pressure curve moves discordantly in constrictive pericarditis while it moves concordantly in restrictive cardiomyopathy
Source : Mayo Clin Proc. 2010;85(6):572-593
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