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Fate of coronary arteries in Constrictive pericarditis

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

Inflammatory pericarditis can occur in differential fashion. For example, the most common chronic pericarditis tuberculosis affects the fibrinous layer. Post MI pericarditis involves the epicardium. There has been many reports of patients with angina in CP (Ref 1). Angina caused by calcific constrictive pericarditis.

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Chest pain followed by 6 days of increasing dyspnea -- what happened?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The exception is with postinfarction pericarditis , in which a completed transmural infarct results in inflammation of the subepicardial myocardium and STE in the distribution of the infarct, and which results in increased STE and large upright T-waves. These findings together are more commonly seen with pericarditis.