title: Rapid progression of pericardial calcification in a patient with end-stage renal disease.
abstract: Dialysis pericarditis is a relatively uncommon cause of pericardial constriction and may be found in patients with end-stage renal disease receiving adequate renal replacement therapy. We present a patient with end-stage renal disease maintained on chronic peritoneal dialysis who developed severe myopericardial calcification over a 2-month period demonstrated by sequential chest computed tomographic scanning. The characteristic hemodynamic findings of constrictive-effusive pericarditis, obtained during cardiac catheterization, are presented and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Section of Cardiology, Hospital of Saint Raphael-Yale University School of Medicine, 1450 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. bmarcu@srhs.org
authors.forename: Constantin B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Marcu
authors.forename: Eugene
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Caracciolo
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Donohue
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed