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Cardiac necklace in rheumatic heart disease
  • Abhijit V Kulkarni,
  • Subramani K Shankar Rao,
  • Rajiv Ananthakrishna,
  • Manjunath C Nanjappa
BMJ Case Reports 2012:published online 19 January 2012, doi:10.1136/bcr.08.2011.4593

  1. Rheumatic pericarditis does not lead to constriction

    • Sethuraman K Raman, Senior Professor of Medicine
    AIMST University, Malaysia

    Classical text books of Medicine and Cardiology in the 60's used to make a categorical statement that rheumatic pericarditis can lead to calcified pericardium (as in the present case report) but does not lead to constrictive pericarditis.

    Since chronic rheumatic heart disease is a rare entity in the developed world, not much is documented in the recent literature.

    Conflict of Interest:

    None declared

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    Published 12 April 2012
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