Calcific constructive pericarditis: a rare complication of CREST syndrome.
This report describes a patient with limited cutaneous scleroderma in whom calcific constrictive pericarditis developed. This complication of limited cutaneous scleroderma has not been reported previously.
Panchal
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Division of Rheumatology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 60153, USA.
Adams
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Hsieh
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D000368:Aged; D001175:Arthrography; D017675:CREST Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic