title: [Protein-losing enteropathy revealing an idiopathic constrictive pericarditis].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The cause of protein-losing enteropathy is sometimes difficult to establish. It can be rarely due to a constrictive pericarditis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a patient presenting a protein-losing enteropathy revealing a constrictive pericarditis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Chronic pericarditis should be evoked in case of unexplained protein-losing enteropathy. Echocardiography can sometimes be normal. Therefore, chest computed tomography scan or cardiac MRI followed by confirmation right heart catheterization should be performed in case of persistent unexplained protein-losing enteropathy.
authors.affiliation: Service de médecine interne, centre national de référence des atteintes vasculaires de la sclérodermie, hôpital Claude-Huriez, CHRU de Lille, université Lille-II, rue Michel-Polonovski, 59037 Lille cedex, France. d-launay@chru-lille.fr
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Launay
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hachulla
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Groote
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Remy-Jardin
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Queyrel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morell-Dubois
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Charlanne
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cortot
authors.forename: P-Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Hatron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011504:Protein-Losing Enteropathies / Q000209:etiology*