title: Constrictive pericarditis mimicking Budd-Chiari syndrome.
abstract: Budd-Chiari syndrome and constrictive pericarditis share many clinical and histologic features. Clinicians must continue to reassess patients when given histologic data that are not specific for a particular disease entity, so that subtle clinical differences are recognized, appropriate diagnosis made, and therapy instituted.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed