title: Acute idiopathic pericarditis and calcific aortic stenosis: unusual fatal disease combination.
abstract: Acute idiopathic pericarditis with massive pericardial effusion complicated left ventricular enlargement due to calcific aortic stenosis and led to intractable congestive heart failure and death during aortic valve replacement in a 42-year-old white male. This unusual combination of acute and chronic diseases is lethal due to their combined deleterious effect upon myocardial function.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000150:complications*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000150:complications*