title: Idiopathic chronic constrictive pericarditis secondary to calcified pericardial haematoma.
abstract: Pericardial haematoma is a rare entity that is thought to arise acutely as a consequence of blunt chest wall injury. We report our experience with a chronic form of presentation in which calcified pericardial haematoma presented as a mass causing chronic constrictive pericarditis symptoms in a patient with no prior history of chest wall injury. The ability to recognize such a rare occurrence is vital as surgery will often be curative.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland. trinityq8@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Nael
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Al-Sarraf
authors.forename: Kishore
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Doddakula
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Eillish
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: McGovern
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D002908:Chronic Disease; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006406:Hematoma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D010496:Pericardium / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography