title: Fibrosing TB mediastinitis presenting as a superior vena cava syndrome: a case presentation and echocardiogram correlate.
abstract: A 49-year-old woman developed a chronic obstruction of the superior vena cava (SVC) as a complication of mediastinal tuberculosis. Echocardiography findings are presented along with the cavography. Symptoms disappeared after stenting the fibrosed SVC. Transesophageal echocardiogram findings led to the condition's final resolution.
authors.affiliation: Echocardiography Laboratory, Mexico Hospital, Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social, Department of Medicine, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica. baltesq@racsa.co.cr
authors.forename: Lidiette
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Esquivel
authors.forename: Heiner
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Diaz-Picado
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology