title: Recurrent pleural effusions and a normal cardiac CT.
abstract: Our patient had the classic square root sign typical of constrictive pericarditis, but contrary to what we would have expected, his end-diastolic pressures did not equalize.
authors: Family Medicine Inpatient Service, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA.
authors: Stephen J
authors: SJ
authors: Warnick
authors: Jeffrey S
authors: JS
authors: Morgeson
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019152:Paracentesis; D010494:Pericarditis, Constrictive / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed