Objective To investigate the perioperative management for chronic constrictive pericarditis.Methods 96 patients of chronic constrictive peircarditis were received pericardiectomy .
People who develop pericarditis are also at risk of developing a pericardial effusion - that's when the inflammation causes fluid to accumulate around the heart.
Another cause of pericarditis, called uremic pericarditis, is when blood levels of urea, a nitrogen waste product, get really high usually due to kidney problems.
When the pericardium is involved, it often leads to pericarditis —inflammation of the pericardium— and pericardial effusion, an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial cavity.
Pericarditis can also be seen in autoimmune diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, or systemic lupus erythematosus, because the immune system attacks its own tissues, including the pericardium.
On an echocardiogram, a pericardial effusion makes the heart look like it's dancing within the pericardium, whereas chronic pericarditis shows the stiff serous pericardium restricting the heart's movement.