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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease constrictive pericarditis
Phenotype C0041296|tuberculosis
Sentences 4
PubMedID- 26425371 We assume that tuberculosis was the cause of the constrictive pericarditis.
PubMedID- 25859311 In developing and underdevelopment nations as well as in immunosuppressed patients, tuberculosis is major cause of constrictive pericarditis.
PubMedID- 22493608 tuberculosis accounted for 49% of cases of constrictive pericarditis in a series reported in 1962,4) but tuberculosis is now only a rare cause of constrictive pericarditis in developed countries.
PubMedID- 23561832 The authors describe the case of a 59-year-old man, a former smoker, with hypertension, chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis, and a history of stent grafting for repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and miliary tuberculosis, who was diagnosed with constrictive pericarditis and a thoracic aortic aneurysm.

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