title: [Chronic pericarditis from radiation (author's transl)].
abstract: A case of chronic pericarditis with effusion in a 25 years old white man, 19 months after therapeutic irradiation of the mediastinum with a total dose of 4.350 rads for Hodgkin's disease. Pericardiectomy was followed by improvement of functional capacity persistent 7 months after operation.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000532:radiotherapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Pericardite cronica da radiazioni