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Surgical Treatment of Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis, Is Tuberculosis Still a Common Cause?

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Alireza Alizadeh Ghavidel1,*, Hossein Javadpour1,**
1Iran
Corresponding Authors:
* Alireza Alizadeh Ghavidel, Iranaaghavidel@gmail.com
** Hossein Javadpour, Iraninfo@scsir.org

Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Annals:Vol. 2, issue 3; e8715
Published online:Jan 01, 2009
Article type:Research Article
Received:Sep 11, 2016
Accepted:Jan 01, 2009
How to Cite:Alizadeh Ghavidel A, Javadpour H. Surgical Treatment of Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis, Is Tuberculosis Still a Common Cause?. Multidiscip Cardio Annal. 2009;2(3):e8715. doi:

Abstract

Constrictive pericarditis (C.P) demonstrates a heterogeneous pattern and has different aetiologies depending on the geographic areas of reported pericarditis. Today in the western hemisphere radiation and previous cardiac surgery have become important causes of CP, but it seems that Tuberculosis is still a common cause of C.P in developing countries

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