Pericarditis chronic constrictive

Champagne S, Coste E, Peyriere H, Nigond J, Mania E, Pons M, Hillaire-Buys D, Balmes P, Blayac JP, Davy JM. Chronic constrictive pericarditis induced by long-term bromocriptine therapy report of two cases. Ann Pharmacother 1999 33(10) 1050. ... 

Figure 3.28 A patient with chronic constrictive pericarditis. The T wave is negative in many leads, but not quite deep, without the mirror pattern in the frontal plane. The T wave is only positive in VR and V1 because as this is a diffuse subepicardial ischaemia, they are the only two leads in which the ischaemia vector that is directed away from the ischaemic area is approaching the exploring electrode.

Encephalopathy can be triggered by (7.) degenerative causes (cerebral sclerosis, arterial hypertension, diabetes, etc.), (2.) hypoxaemia (chronic cardiac insufficiency, constrictive pericarditis (2), respira-... 

Constrictive pericarditis has been reported in a 37-year-old woman with chronic ulcerative colitis who had taken mesalazine 2 g/day for 2 weeks (26). She recovered after radical pericardiectomy. 

Oxentenko AS, Loftus EV, Oh JK, Danielson GK, Mangan TF. Constrictive pericarditis in chronic ulcerative colitis. J Clin Gastroenterol 2002 34(3) 247-51. 

Heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, thyrotoxicosis, constrictive pericarditis, ischemic heart disease, sepsis, pulmonary embolus, rheumatic heart disease, hypertension, mitral stenosis, atrial irritation, or complication of coronary bypass or valve replacement surgery. 

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