title: Severe heart failure due to subacute effusive-constrictive pericarditis in a child.
abstract: We report a 9-year-old boy with progressive heart failure due to effusive-constrictive pericarditis. The patient was successfully rescued by extensive surgical removal of the thickened pericardium. The histopathological examination revealed degenerative changes of myocardium without significant inflammation, indicating that surgical pericardiectomy should be performed for subacute effusive-constrictive pericarditis before progression to definite constrictive pericarditis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Nephrology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Suita
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Shiraishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shuntoh
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamagishi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hamaoka
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D018450:Disease Progression; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010492:Pericardiectomy; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology